This paper criticises the generally accepted definition of labour value as first put forward by Nobuo Okishio as seriously faulty and in contradiction with the theory of cost. The shortcomings of this Cold War Definition of Labour Value are so obvious that it is difficult to understand how an...

This article starts with definitions of value and profit and constructs a new interpretation of the economic crisis. Exchange of goods stems from different people's different judgments on the value of goods, and twice exchanges of goods lead to commercial profits. Production profit is...

This paper presents the microeconomic partial and general economic equilibrium analysis of monopoly power in terms of labour values. In the partial analysis it is shown that the monopolistic mark-ups above marginal cost do not constitute labour values but real bubbles of values which prevent the...

This paper is the first part of a Marxian critique of the theory of the firm, focusing on the analysis of labour values. Starting from Adam Smith's example of the deer hunter, marginal analysis is introduced, culminating in the derivation of the Labour Value Function, as the supply curve of the...

This article presents the marginal approach to the labour theory of value. The difficulties of the classical and Marxian labour theory of value are overcome when labour value is understood as marginal labour value analogously to marginal cost. Marginal labour value is the reciprocal of the...

The modern reformulation of Classical analysis of value and distribution built upon Sraffa’s Production of Commodities provides quite a general and open framework to study distributive relationships, that deserves to be still explored. The present work aims to go through these relationships...

The interest-rate controversies between Böhm-Bawerk and Fisher have attracted little attention and, in the opinion of most commentators, justifiably so. Böhm-Bawerk and Fisher argue over what appear to be two minor issues – Böhm-Bawerk's claims that his third cause of interest (productivity...

The object of research is the role of the intellectual capital and knowledge in modern economics and value creation process. Therefore, taking into account the intellectual component of value due to the transformation of the society’s productive forces structure in the transition to a...

This paper introduces the concept of marginal labour value in the framework of perfect competition and shows that prices are proportional to marginal labour values. By this marginal analysis overcomes the classical contradiction of labour commanded and labour embodied. Furthermore the curves of...

The classical labor theory of value generates two well-known antinomies: Ricardo's problem of an invariable measure of value and Marx's transformation problem. I show that both antinomies are generated by the same category-mistake of expecting a technical measure of labor cost to function as a...