A Critique of the Discursive Systems and Foundation Concepts of Distribution Analysis

Warren Samuels

Chapter 4 in Essays on the Methodology and Discourse of Economics, 1992, pp 62-82 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Insofar as economic actors are motivated by a desire to maximize their respective incomes and wealth, rather than the allocation of resources to the production of particular outputs, distribution is, as David Ricardo said, the central problem of political economy. Whatever else its concerns, economic science has political or policy significance with regard to distribution. Such may be its ultimate significance.

Keywords: Income Distribution; Wage Rate; Productivity Theory; Factor Price; Exploitation Approach (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1992
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-12371-1_5

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