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Law of Value 10: Price and Value
[This is video 10 in my ongoing Law of Value series. It’s a controversial topic… so, let’s see what folks think of my attempt…] Here’s a yo-yo. Let’s say it took an hour to make, parts and everything. And here’s … Continue reading
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Tagged demand, economics, marx, money, price, prices of production, profit, supply, theory, transformation problem, value
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Value-Price- a draft script
This is a draft of the script for my next video “Value and Price”. Any feedback is helpful. The footnotes have yet to be numerically linked to the main text. Intro There is a lot of confusion over Marx’s theory … Continue reading
Posted in Econ 101-value profit exploitaiton, The Law of Value, Uncategorized
Tagged cost-price, marx, money, price, prices of production, profit, SNLT, transformation problem, value
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Kapital vol 3; Chapter 14. Counteracting Influences
Capital Vol. III Part III: The Law of the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall Chapter 14. Counteracting Influences (This post is part of an ongoing project: a close reading of volume 3 of Kapital, one post per … Continue reading
Das Kapital vol.3 Chapter 9: Formation of a General Rate of Profit (Average Rate of Profit) and Transformation of the Values of Commodities into Prices of Production
In all of the consternation, debate and quarreling over Marx’s value theory this chapter, chapter 9 of volume 3, lies in the center of much of that (though perhaps chapter 10 even more so). Continue reading
Das Kapital vol. 3 Part 2 chapter 8 Different Compositions of Capitals in Different Branches of Production and Resulting Differences in Rates of Profit
“…differences in the average rate of profit in the various branches of industry do not exist in reality, and could not exist without abolishing the entire system of capitalist production. It would seem, therefore, that here the theory of value is incompatible with the actual process, incompatible with the real phenomena of production, and that for this reason any attempt to understand these phenomena should be given up.” Continue reading
Das Kapital vol. 3 Part 2- opening thoughts
Herein lies theoretical ideas that have been hotly debated for well over a century now. Up until now we have assumed that price equals value and that profit is directly related to the amount of surplus value produced. But now, 140 pages into the 3rd volume of Kapital Marx explains that in conditions of capitalist competition prices don’t equal values and that profit is not determined by the surplus value produced by a firm. This has raised all manner of criticism and even ridicule from some corners. Bohm Bawerk made much of this in his criticism of Marx. Continue reading
Kapital vol. 3 Part 1 Chapter 1: Cost-Price and Profit
Marx begins by briefly reminding us of the the large-scale structure of his three volumes of Kapital. Each volume analyzes capitalism from different levels of abstraction delineated by different social relations. Continue reading
Kapital Vol. 3 – Engels’ Preface 1894
The first part of Engels’ introduction describes the laborious process Engels confronted as he attempted to put together a draft of Volume 3 from Marx’s incomplete manuscripts and notes. It sounds like a nightmare of a task. Continue reading
What Transformation Problem?
Nerd alert: I know that my videos normally represent the height of fashion. I know that my massive popularity, on the account of all the violence, sex appeal, and sports references have launched me into the top ranks of viral … Continue reading
Posted in Econ 101-value profit exploitaiton, Econ 202- money credit capital, Econ 303- Crisis, Uncategorized
Tagged average rate of profit, bortkiewicz, karl marx, labor theory of value, organic composition of capital, prices of production, temporal single system, transformation problem, tssi, value
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Consume!
This video on consumption and underconsumption theory is part of a larger, ongoing set of videos about the nature of economic crisis in a capitalist society. Continue reading
Posted in Econ 303- Crisis
Tagged automation, capitalism, commercials, credit, crisis, depression, Exploitation, falling rate of profit, labor, labor theory of value, marx, marxism, money, overaccumulation, prices of production, recession, transformation problem, underconsumption, value
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