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At 17:18 18/05/00 +0530, you wrote:
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>Ajit:
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>Marx's price theory is nothing but Sraffa's.
I would agree, but perhaps the other way round, Sraffa was just formalising
Marx's theory.
I accept Ajits point about the ambiguity of Marx's definition of socially
necessary labour time. There is a conceptual slide between a technical
definition and a definiton based upon effective demand.
For consistency the references to effective demand determining value
should be dropped. One should stick to a technical definition defined in
terms of the mean labour required to produce commodity X averaged over
the firms currently producing it. One would calculate this by adding up
the total number of X.s produced per week let this =n,
let the number of workers employed
directly and indirectly to produce these X.s be y, let the working week
be w hours.
then the value of an X is yw/n hours.
No need to refer to demand conditions at all.
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