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- Title
Marx's transformation problem and Pasinetti's vertically integrated subsystems.
- Authors
Wright, Ian
- Abstract
Pasinetti (1988) constructs a 'complete generalization of Marx's "transformation problem"', in the context of a non-uniform growth model, by proving that production prices are not proportional to the physical quantities of labour supplied to 'vertically hyper-integrated subsystems'. Pasinetti therefore restricts the labour theory of value to a pre-institutional stage of analysis. In this paper I demonstrate that the transformation problem dissolves once we consider the vertically integrated subsystems induced by the specific institutional setup of a capitalist economy. I prove that production prices, both in steady-state and non-uniform-growth models, are proportional to the physical quantities of labour supplied to 'vertically super-integrated subsystems'. In consequence the labour theory of value, suitably generalized, also applies at the institutional stage of analysis.
- Subjects
LABOR theory of value; MARXIAN economics; LABOR supply; CAPITALISM; ECONOMICS
- Publication
Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2019, Vol 43, Issue 1, p169
- ISSN
0309-166X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/cje/bex068