Marxian Economics: A Reappraisal Volume 2: Essays on Volume III of C

Springing from a conference held in Bergamo University on the occasion of the centenary of the publication by Engels of the third book of Capital, the papers collected in these two volumes reinstate Marx's as the first genuinely evolutionary economic theo

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Marxian Economics: A Reappraisal Essays on Volume III of Capital Volume 2: Profits, Prices and Dynamics

Edited by

Riccardo Bellofiore

Department 0/ Economics University ofBergamo Italy

First published in Great Britain 1998 by

MACMILLAN PRESS LTD

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and London Companies and representatives throughout the world A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

ISBN 978-1-349-26123-9

DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-26121-5

ISBN 978-1-349-26121-5 (eBook)

First published in the United States of America 1998 by

ST. MARrIN'S PRESS, INC.,

Scholarly and Reference Division. 175 Fifth Avenue, New York. N.Y. 10010 ISBN 978-0-312-17665-5 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Marxian economics : a reappraisal/edited by Riccardo Bellofiore. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Contents: v. I. Essays on volume III of "Capital" : method, value. and money - v. 2. Essays on volume III of "Capital" : profits, prices. and dynamics . ISBN 978-0-312-17664-8 (vol. I). -ISBN 978-0-312-17665-5 (vol. 2) I. Marxian economics. 2. Marx. Karl. 1818-1883. Kapital. English. I. Bellofiore, R. (Riccardo) HB97.5.M33426 1997 335.4'I---dc21 97-17608 CIP

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Contents Notes on the Contributors

vii

Introduction by Riccardo Bellofiore

xi

Acknowledgements

Part I

xxv

Prices and Values

1 Profitability, Prices and Values

3

Meghnad Desai

2 Marx's Logic in Capital and the 'Transformation Problem'

14

Fred Moseley

3 Value, Exchange Value and the Internal -Consistency of Volume III of Capital: A Refutation of Refutations

29

Andrew J. Kliman

4 The Transformation Trinity: Value, Value Form and Price

43

Antonio Callari, Bruce Roberts and Richard Wolff

5

Socially Contingent Value

57

Carole Biewener 6

Does Marx Need to Transform?

70

Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell

7 The Distinction between Social Value, Individual Value, Market Value and Market Price in Volume III of Capital Chai-on Lee 8 Time and Equilibrium in Neoclassical Pri