Re: [OPE-L] A REFUTATION OF THE COMMODITY EXPLOITATION THEOREM

From: Pen-L Fred Moseley (fmoseley@MTHOLYOKE.EDU)
Date: Sun Jan 28 2007 - 12:05:39 EST


Hi Alejandro,

Well, it looks like we may have solved the "Rakesh problem" for now.
I hope for good.  Thanks for your help.

I am interested in the paper you mentioned below.  Would you please
send it to me?

Saludos a Gloria!

Fred


Quoting Alejandro Valle Baeza <valle@SERVIDOR.UNAM.MX>:

> A REFUTATION OF THE COMMODITY EXPLOITATION THEOREM
> Takao Fujimoto and Yukihiko Fujita
> Fukuoka University, Japan
> ABSTRACT
> This note is to show that the generalized commodity exploitation theorem put
> forward by Bowles and Gintis (1981) and Roemer (1982, 1986) is nothing but
> an alternative form of the Hawkins-Simon condition for a given technical
> data,
> and that it has nothing to do with exploitation. That is, the Hawkins-Simon
> condition means a mere possibility of an economic system to produce a
> surplus
> in each commodity, and as such does not guarantee the existence of positive
> profits. To consider exploitation or the existence of positive profits,
> we need to
> introduce prices at which unequal exchanges may be carried out.
>
> I will send full article by request
> Alejandro Valle Baeza
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