Ricardo`s Theory Of Value
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Ricardo`s Theory Of Value
One of the enduring questions
of economics is "Where do profits come from?" One of the ways in which
economic philosophers have tried to answer it is by first answering the question
of value. At the center of most economic paradigms is a Theory of Value. The
classical political economists found value to be determined in production; since
most of the cost of production could be reduced to labour, this approach was
refined into The Labour Theory of Value. Neoclassical economists looked for
value in the market act of exchange and developed the Marginal Theory of Value.
Both of these theories are currently under challenge by the post-Keynesians with
their Sraffian Theory of Value, which, like the labour theory of value, is based
on production rather than exchange. Any theory of value in economics is an
extremely abstract formulation: in fact, value theory is the major intersection
between economics and philosophy. For millennia, literally, scholars and
theorists have tried to deduce how items attained their 'value'. From
pre-Christian to pre-Keynesian times, various strands of thought have proposed
(often divergent) explanations for this phenomenon. For instance, economists
sometimes use the term "theory of value" to mean quite different
things. Here, the term is used to denote a theory that attempts to explain
long-run prices in a capitalist economy. But there are also theories of value
which attempt to explain what prices should be. Medieval scholars used the
concept of just price, which was the price that would allow the producer to earn
a living appropriate to his social position. Some Institutionalists have
introduced similar concepts - such as normative value or reasonable value.
Whatever their explanations, theories of value are at the heart of two of the
major themes: i-) the distribution of wealth and income; and ii-)the maintenance
of microeconomic order. A Brief History of Value Theory The debate on the theory
of value, which was initiated in Ancient Greece and which became inactive during
the Middle Ages, later re-emerged at the close of the seventeenth century to
dominate economic thought for the next 200 years. Even today its primary
importance is such that Schumpeter claimed that "the problem of value must
always hold the pivotal position, as the chief tool of analysis in any pure
theory that works with a rational schema." Similar hypothetical solutions
varied from time to time. Considering that this piece is hyperbo...
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