Profit for Marxists

Egmont Kakarot-Handtke (handtke@axec.de)

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: Marxian economics and standard economics are widely different yet they share a central weakness: the respective profit theories are demonstrably false – each one in its own characteristic way. Roughly speaking, Marx tried to explain profit by objective factors while standard economics cites subjective factors. For different reasons, neither route led to satisfactory results. The conclusion is straightforward: one has to do better. The conceptual consequence is to first reconstruct the profit theory from a solid basis with no regard to either Marxian or standard premises. In order to succeed, objective-structural axioms have to be taken as formal point of departure.

Keywords: new framework of concepts; structure-centric; axiom set; profit theory; surplus value; distribution; real shares (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B59 E11 E25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-03-26
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