Chapter 8 On the labor theory of value: statistical artefacts or regularities?

Lefteris Tsoulfidis () and Dimitris Paitaridis

A chapter in Why Capitalism Survives Crises: The Shock Absorbers, 2009, pp 209-232 from Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Abstract: This paper subjects to empirical testing the standard (based on the notion of vertical integration) method for the estimation of labor values and prices of production against an alternative one known as the Temporary Single-System Interpretation (TSSI), an approach that finds strong support among a new generation of researchers. Our empirical findings from the Canadian economy suggest that both methods give rise to estimates of labor values and prices of production that are surprisingly close to observed prices. Further examination however reveals that the TSSI contradicts some of the basic tenets of logical consistency of the theory that indents to vindicate. These results lend support to the standard Marxian theory, and the estimating methods associated with it constitute a fertile ground for further research.

Date: 2009
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