This paper offers a unique Marxian formulation of the transformation of values in prices of production. This formulation-based upon a specific reading of Marx's economics not previously applied to the "transformation problem"-permits a radically new conception and solution to that problem. The...

The economic surplus approach is used to estimate the returns to federal investments in dairy cattle research in Canada. A national supply function is estimated using time series data. Lagged research expenditures are included as explanatory variables in the model, facilitating the calculation...

Sraffa's construct, the standard commodity, responds to Ricardo's search for an 'invariable' measure of value, since it is a measurement unit invariant to changes in distribution. But Sraffa suggests that there is no 'counterpart,' no analogous search or needed construct, for the 'problem' of...