1st Edition

Themes in Value and Distribution Classical Theory Reappraised

By C. T. Onions Copyright 1989
    354 Pages
    by Routledge

    354 Pages
    by Routledge

    The essays in this volume, first published in 1989, seek to re-examine an important area of economic theory: value and distribution. In a sustained and analytical critique, two principle methodological approaches are compared and distinguished: the Classical or ‘surplus-based’ theories and the demand-and-supply-based equilibrium (DSE) theories. Although the essays are primarily concerned with value and distribution, the critique necessarily extends to the theory of output and employment, and in general, to the theory of trade and accumulation. The book will be an invaluable reader for students of economic thought, capital theory and Marxian political economy.

    Acknowledgements;  1. Introduction  2. Adam Smith’s Political Economy  3. Ricardian Theory and Ricardianism  4. On a Controversy over Ricardo’s Theory of Distribution  5. Sraffa’s Ricardo  6. The Subversion of Classical Analysis: Alfred Marshall’s Early Writing on Value  7. Marshall on Pigou’s Wealth and Welfare  8. Maurice Dobb’s Critique of Theories of Value of Distribution  9. On Certain Theoretical Issues in Classical Political Economy  10. Sraffa’s Return to Classical Theory  11. On the Maximum Number of Switches between Two Production Systems  12. On Effective Demand: Certain Recent Critiques  13. Piero Sraffa: The Man and the Scholar – A Tribute;  Index

    Biography

    Krishna Bharadwaj