Marx’s Refusal of the Labour Theory of Value
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2179-0892.geousp.2018.145931Keywords:
Labour theory of value, Value theory, Karl Marx, Ricardo, CapitalAbstract
In this recent article, not yet available by publishers, David Harvey does a comparison between the labour theory of value from Ricardo and the value theory from Karl Marx, bringing a sample of the discussions of his latest book Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason. The author thus discusses the differences between these theories and their unfoldings in the current Marxist studies, concluding that the value form from the Marx studies could not be considered as a “stable fulcrum in capital’s churning world but a constantly changing and unstable metric”, which is expressed through “by unfolding practices of social reproduction, and massive transformations in the wants, needs and desires of whole populations” through everyday life. That demonstrates, according to the author, that this theory is “far beyond what Ricardo had in mind and equally far away from that conception of value usually attributed to Marx”.
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