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Value and Price Q&A
I have been looking forward to finally putting together a script for a video on Value and Price. As a preparation for that task I’ve written the following: an attempted summary of my understanding the topic. The text is peppered … Continue reading
Posted in Econ 101-value profit exploitaiton, The Law of Value, Uncategorized
Tagged antiques, art, average, bohm-bawerk, commodity, critique, demand, economics, labor, market, marx, modal, money, monopoly, mud pie, price, rate of profit, SNLT, supply, utility, value
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The Enigma of the Enigma- my critique of David Harvey for the Left Forum
see the more recent, and far superior, draft here. The Left Forum is next weekend at Pace University in NYC. I’m speaking on two panels on Sunday: David Harvey and Capitalist Accumulation; and a roundtable on Andrew Kliman’s new … Continue reading
Posted in Econ 303- Crisis
Tagged crisis, critique, David Harvey, Limits, marx, overaccumulation, rate of profit, sraffa, theory, TRPF
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Das Kapital vol. 3 part 1 chapter 7: Supplementary Remarks
….Therefore it is easy to confuse the value-creating powers of labor with the subjective valuations that happen in exchange. We have seen, throughout these opening chapters, how that profit comes wholly from surplus value. Yet the rate of profit is modified by a variety of other factors like changes in the value of constant capital, turnover time, changes in value of labor power, etc. This is one more way in which we confuse these changes for the cause of value. We might notice that increased turnover time increases profit but this doesn’t mean that time itself creates value. We might notice that a decrease in constant capital costs causes profits to rise. But this doesn’t mean that constant capital is creating more value. Continue reading
Das Kapital vol.3 Part 1 Chapter 2: The Rate of Profit
The summary which begins Chapter Two serves not only to remind us of some important details about the way in which value is produced but also ties together several details that will be essential for understanding our analysis of the law of value in the context of competing capitals. We are reminded first that surplus value is created in production but only realized in circulation. This is a crucial point as it really helps delineate the essential contours of Marx’s argument. The world of appearance is dominated by fetishism. We think that the coercive and tantalizing power of the market, that value, is manifest in commodities themselves as a result of their specific properties. We think that capital itself creates value. And we think that the process of exchange itself can create a profit. Continue reading
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