A rate of profit, expressed in labour magnitudes, that allows matching total plus value with total profits is determined. The relative prices, expressed in wage units, associated with this rate ensure that total profits are equal to the difference between the sum of relative prices and the sum...

We support labour contents as an absolute and reliable measurement unit and as an accounting procedure that expresses the real costs and profits of the economic system. As far as this measurement capacity of labour is concerned, we try to demonstrate, that, from a theoretical point of view, the...

We deal with three subjects, namely, the presence of more than one rate of profit in an economy due to the existence of rents (absolute and monopoly rents); the subordination of the prices and the rate of profit (in price terms) to the real profit or net product, measured in value terms; and the...

We support labour contents as an absolute and reliable measurement unit and as an accounting procedure that expresses the real costs and profits of the economic system. As far as the labour capacity of expressing real social costs and profits is concerned, we highlight the inaccuracy in the...

The work analyses the relations between relative prices, profits and rents. It briefly reviews the main theoretical literature on the subject and then considers the empirical evidence on the case of Italy in the period 1951-1971.

This paper intends to present an unconventional approach to the classical theory of relative prices based on recent developments and current limitations. Using the work of Carlo Benetti, Christian Bidard y Edith Klimovsky (Bidard and Klimovsky, 2006) as a conceptual framework that generalizes...

The paper analyses the empirical relations between relative prices, income distribution and private investments. It applies the theoretical framework developed by the author in his "Oligopoly and technical progress" to the case of Italy for the period 1951-1966.

This paper argues that Marx’s law of the falling rate of profit applies to the problematic of choice of technique in the context of accumulation of capital, and not to the problematic of choice of technique in the context of technological change or new innovation as such. In this context,...

The article presents an estimate of the rate of profit in United Kingdom between 1855 and 2009. By isolating some of the countervailing forces specified by Marx of the law of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall, it demonstrates that the law impose despite those countervailing forces,...

This was presented to the First International Seminar on Nuevas Direcciones en el Pensamiento Económico Crítico (New Directions in Critical Economic Thought), organised by the Departiment of Applied Economics, Faculty of Politics, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, 10-12 May 1999 It...