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If Profit Is the Answer, What Should Be the Question? Income from Capital and the Labour Theory of Value

In: Class, Surplus, and the Division of Labour

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  • Michal Polák

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Exploitation is an uncomfortable idea, and it is unsurprising that many people would prefer not to think or talk about it. In this chapter, I will attempt to show that no alternative explanation of profit to the one provided by the Labour Theory of Value — or, in other words, no explanation which attempts to avoid this unpalatable idea of exploitation — is in fact adequate. Chapter 6 will then be devoted to the Marxian theory of prices, the Sraffian critique of it and the precise relation between the Marxian and the Sraffian approaches to the economy.

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  • Michal Polák, 2013. "If Profit Is the Answer, What Should Be the Question? Income from Capital and the Labour Theory of Value," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Class, Surplus, and the Division of Labour, chapter 5, pages 113-139, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-28773-1_5
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137287731_5
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