Processo de gravitação e “revoluções do valor”: algumas observações metodológicas e epistemológicas

Abstract

This paper intends to study the theoretical significance of production prices from Marx’s analytical point of view. After stressing the methodological and epistemological distinctiveness of such analysis, we present how, and in what extent, both the stability of macroeconomic equilibrium and the validity of Say’s Law are necessary and sufficient conditions to establish the equalization of the sectoral profit rates. This conclusion leads us also to quest the very nature of capitalist competition. In the light of the results thus obtained, and taking in consideration the entropy produced by capitalist  competition, we provide a new definition for the teoretical significance of production prices. Moreover, we show why, in the ambit of Marx’s economic universe, these prices cannot be conceived as a position of long run equilibrium toward which the market prices would converge.