In reply to Paolo's OPE-L:5434:
Paolo remarks:
>A very short remark on the 'New Solution' :
>
>I find very difficult to understand the big noise that has been made about
>the 'New Solution'. Gerard Dumenil and Dominique Levy in their most recent
>book ("La dynamique du Capital", PUF 1996, Paris) downgrade it from the
>status of 'solution' to that of an 'interpretation'. It is better to leave
>this semantic decision to posterity. What is sure is that the New Solution
>is nothing but the Sraffa system with nominal wage and a given numeraire.
>Nothing more nothing less. As such it is not able pass the critique
>developed many years ago by Sungur Savran: since the system must be able to
>reproduce itself, since you have a nominal wage how do you know that with
>this wage the workers will be able to get the commodities (the real wage)
>they need ie that the system will meet the existing standard of labour
>power reproduction?
I'm not sure that the "big noise" (if it ever existed) is justified, but I
don't think Paolo's characterization of the NI is accurate, as I've been
trying to explain in other posts. In particular the NI does not take a
position on equalization of profit rates through competition or on the
determinants of the nominal or real wage.
Cheers,
Duncan
Duncan K. Foley
Department of Economics
Barnard College
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