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| | ISIL -- <b>Laborb> <b>Theoryb> of Value |
 | | But proponents of the <b>laborb> <b>theoryb> would have it both ways: workers are to receive the full future value of their product now. |  | | Karl Marx's <b>laborb> <b>theoryb> of value asserts that the value of an object is solely a result of the <b>laborb> expended to produce it. |  | | The <b>laborb> <b>theoryb> of value is clearly an intrinsic-value <b>theoryb>. |
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http://www.isil.org/resources/lit/labor-theory-val.html
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| | Chapter 3. The <b>Theoryb> of Value |
 | | But their values are governed, as was shown, by the magnitude of importance of the satisfactions that would have to remain unsatisfied if we were unable to command the <b>laborb> services. |  | | There are other <b>laborb> services that have goods-character but not economic character, and hence no value (...the <b>laborb> services connected with some unpaid office, for example)...<b>Laborb> services are therefore not always goods or economic goods simply because they are <b>laborb> services; they do not have value as a matter of necessity. |  | | The measure of value is entirely subjective in nature, and for this reason a good can have great value to one economizing individual, little value to another, and no value at all to a third, depending upon the differences in their requirements and available amounts. |
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http://mason.gmu.edu/~tlidderd/menger/menger_ch3.html
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| | Economic Manuscripts: Capital Vol. I - Chapter One |
 | | The general value form is the reduction of all kinds of actual labour to their common character of being human labour generally, of being the expenditure of human labour power. |  | | The value of one commodity is to the value of any other, as the labour time necessary for the production of the one is to that necessary for the production of the other. |  | | Therefore, in the value relation of commodity A to commodity B, of the linen to the coat, not only is the latter, as value in general, made the equal in quality of the linen, but a definite quantity of coat (1 coat) is made the equivalent of a definite quantity (20 yards) of linen. |
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http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch01.htm
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| | Marxism, by David L. Prychitko: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics: Library of Economics and Liberty |
 | | Its basic claim is simple: the value of a commodity can be objectively measured by the average amount of <b>laborb> hours that are required to produce that commodity. |  | | The entire capitalist systemwith its private property, money, market exchange, profit-and-loss accounting, <b>laborb> markets, and so onmust be abolished, thought Marx, and replaced with a fully planned, self-managed economic system that brings a complete and utter end to exploitation and alienation. |  | | The <b>laborb> <b>theoryb> of value is a major pillar of traditional Marxian economics, which is evident in Marx's masterpiece, Capital (1867). |
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http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/Marxism.html
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| | A. Statement of the Classical <b>Laborb> <b>Theoryb> of Value |
 | | In the same passage, though, he spoke of the value of a commodity in one's possession as consisting of "the quantity of the labour which he can command...." And at other times, he seemed to make the market price of <b>laborb> the source of its effect on exchange value. |  | | Either the <b>laborb> <b>theoryb> of value, or, secondarily, some other form of cost <b>theoryb> of value, |  | | Labour was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. |
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http://www.mutualist.org/id48.html
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| | RevolutionaryLeft.com -> <b>Laborb> <b>Theoryb> Of Value |
 | | The value of <b>laborb> is always lesser then the value of the manufactured goods that it constructs. |  | | Labour <b>theoryb> of value do take supply and demand in count, but thats just a factor in the later sale process, while the value is decided in the whole production process so to speak. |  | | Marx never argued that Value (measured in <b>laborb>) should be used as a medium for exchange. |
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http://www.revolutionaryleft.com/index.php?showtopic=28429
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| | PlanetPapers - Marxism and the <b>Laborb> <b>Theoryb> of Value |
 | | But it has long been known that equilibrium prices in a market economy are not proportional to the amount of <b>laborb> embodied in goods; it was therefore necessary to ask whether the Marxist <b>theoryb> of accumulation could be made more precise even though the <b>laborb> <b>theoryb> of value was wrong. |  | | Freemans crucial point is that the falsity of the labour <b>theoryb> of value rests solely upon academic acceptance of equilibrium analysis and positivist methodology as appropriate methods for doing economics. |  | | Whereas comparison of one <b>theoryb> in terms of another <b>theoryb> implies, at best, the falsification of one set of propositions with reference to another set of propositions, criticism of relevance and realism requires substantial and continual reference to the underlying epistemological and ontological view being taken, however it is perceived (1983, p.10). |
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http://www.planetpapers.com/Assets/4694.php
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| | Scholastic Economics: Thomistic Value <b>Theoryb> |
 | | In considering expenses, in addition to <b>laborb>, Saint Thomas incorporates a notion that embraces very subjective factors such as risk and other costs that are borne by the valuing party. |  | | According to Schumpeter in his History of Economic Analysis, value <b>theoryb> analysis by the Scholastic Doctors "lacked nothing but the marginal apparatus." Schumpeter alludes to the marginal utility <b>theoryb>the economic breakthrough of the nineteenth century that demonstrates that the value of a good diminishes with each unit increment of the good. |  | | The only way for a market valuation of goods to be publicly accessible is by employing some other measure of value. |
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http://www.acton.org/publicat/randl/article.php?id=239
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| | Living-wage Follies - Mises Institute |
 | | This error, again found in Marx's "<b>laborb> <b>theoryb> of value," was cleared up in the 1870s with Carl Menger's insight that value is always an individual's subjective judgment shaped by context. |  | | If many more buyers and sellers jumped in, their competition would establish a price (say $6 per hour) for this type of <b>laborb> at which the buyers to whom it is worth more, and the sellers to whom it is worth less, are equal in number (say 1,000 person-hours per day). |  | | This is how to treat others with dignity, not by paying more for <b>laborb> than its market price and thereby turning an honestly earned (even if not very high) wage into a mixture of wage and dole. |
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http://www.mises.org/fullarticle.asp?control=1150
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| | The <b>Laborb> <b>Theoryb> of Music |
 | | As I wrote in a different publication, the <b>Laborb> <b>Theoryb> of Value would imply that war, one of the most destructive institutions known on earth, is somehow more valuable than a peace treaty, by virtue of the difference in <b>laborb> required. |  | | The <b>Laborb> <b>Theoryb> of Value would have us believe that if a single consumer good– the album – is worth x, then x must be split up, in terms of <b>laborb>, to all those who put work into it. |  | | If this is true for music and therefore poses a serious complication for the <b>Laborb> <b>Theoryb> of Value, I fail to see how the <b>theoryb> can be unifying, which is what it claims to be. |
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http://www.strike-the-root.com/51/gregory/gregory2.html
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| | <b>Laborb> <b>Theoryb> of Value |
 | | A critique cannot even be made within the context of merely the <b>laborb> <b>theoryb> of value--which was such a crucial tool for Marx's alleged exposure of liberal values as a sham. |  | | The core of Marx's alleged critique--especially Capital I--assumes the validity of the <b>laborb> <b>theoryb> of value and deduces the extraction of surplus value and exploitation accordingly. |  | | Regarding the rest of the post: most every contemporary economist actually thinks that the <b>laborb> <b>theoryb> of value is a joke. |
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http://www.csudh.edu/dearhabermas/marx07.htm
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| | Townhall.com :: Columns :: The <b>laborb> <b>theoryb> of value by Paul Greenberg - Sep 2, 2002 |
 | | Lincoln, "is prior to, and independent of capital, that, in fact, capital is the fruit of <b>laborb>, and could never have existed if <b>laborb> had not first existed -- that <b>laborb> can exist without capital, but that capital could never have existed without <b>laborb>. |  | | Lincoln cited the farmer as an example of both capital and <b>laborb>. |  | | But the old shoemaker wouldn't have had to be told about the identity of interest between capital and <b>laborb>; he had lived it. |
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http://www.townhall.com/columnists/paulgreenberg/pg20020902.shtml
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| | Encyclopedia: Exploitation <b>theoryb> |
 | | It rests on the <b>laborb> <b>theoryb> of value which claims that value is intrinsic in a product according to the amount of <b>laborb> that has been spent on producing the product. |  | | Therefore, "making a profit" essentially means taking away from the workers some of the value that results from their <b>laborb>. |  | | Thus the value of a product is reflected in its finished price which in turn is divided between <b>laborb> (wages) and capital (profit) - the raw materials are further divided between <b>laborb> and capital. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Exploitation-theory
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| | Info and facts on 'Philosophy of business' |
 | | The <b>laborb> <b>theoryb> of value (additional info and facts about <b>laborb> <b>theoryb> of value) suggests that when one mixes his <b>laborb> with an object, he thereby makes it his property, and that his <b>laborb> is the principal means of measuring value. |  | | In The <b>Theoryb> of Moral Sentiments (additional info and facts about The <b>Theoryb> of Moral Sentiments), vol II, page 316, he says: By acting according to the dictates of our moral faculties, we necessarily pursue the most effective means for promoting the happiness of mankind. |  | | Advocates of business contract <b>theoryb> (additional info and facts about contract <b>theoryb>) believe that a business is a community of participants organized around a common purpose. |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/p/ph/philosophy_of_business.htm
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| | Socialists Argue About <b>Laborb> Unions |
 | | As a conscious and integrated doctrine this explanation was the logical sequel of the <b>laborb> <b>theoryb> of value according to which <b>laborb> is the origin and the source of the value of goods. |  | | If <b>laborb> is actually exploited, <b>laborb> organizations may offer relief from exploitation through collective bargaining and other devices. |  | | The crude exploitation doctrine resting on a misinterpretation of competition led Sidney and Beatrice Webb to hail trade unions and <b>laborb> legislation enforcing a 94common rule" of wage rates and working conditions and preventing "industrial parasitism," as the guardians of decency and prosperity. |
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http://www.libertyhaven.com/politicsandcurrentevents/unionsandotherorganizations/socialistsargue.html
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| | ISIL -- <b>Laborb> <b>Theoryb> of Value |
 | | But proponents of the <b>laborb> <b>theoryb> would have it both ways: workers are to receive the full future value of their product now. |  | | Karl Marx's <b>laborb> <b>theoryb> of value asserts that the value of an object is solely a result of the <b>laborb> expended to produce it. |  | | The <b>laborb> <b>theoryb> of value is the fundamental premise of Marx's economics and the basis of his analysis of the free market. |
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http://www.isil.org/resources/lit/labor-theory-val.html
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| | Economics |
 | | The "<b>laborb> <b>theoryb> of value" argues that a good or service is worth the <b>laborb> that it takes to produce, and the abundance or scarcity of <b>laborb> determines the price of a commodity. |  | | The <b>laborb> <b>theoryb> of value and the closely related cost-of-production <b>theoryb> of value dominates the work of most classical economists, but they are far from the only accepted basis for "value". |  | | Adam Smith defined "<b>laborb>" as the underlying source of value, and "the <b>laborb> <b>theoryb> of value " underlies the work of Karl Marx, David Ricardo and many other "classical" economists. |
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/encyclopedia/economics_1
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| | Classical Economics vs. the Exploitation <b>Theoryb> |
 | | Along with "the <b>laborb> <b>theoryb> of value" and the "iron law of wages," they discarded such further features of classical political economy as the wages fund doctrine and its corollary that savings and capital are the source of almost all spending in the economic system. |  | | Now, in my view, the fundamental place to challenge the exploitation <b>theoryb> is not over the <b>laborb> <b>theoryb> of value or the iron law of wages, but here, over its conceptual framework—over the doctrines of the primacy of wages and the deduction of profits from wages. |  | | According to this <b>theoryb>, capitalism is a system of virtual slavery, serving the narrow interests of a comparative handful of businessmen and capitalists, who, driven by insatiable greed and power lust, exist as parasites upon the <b>laborb> of the masses. |
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http://www.mises.org/etexts/exploitation.asp
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| | Mutualism (economic <b>theoryb>) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The <b>laborb> <b>theoryb> of value holds that the actual price of a thing (or the "true cost") is the amount of <b>laborb> that was undertaken to produce it. |  | | economic <b>theoryb> or system based on the <b>laborb> <b>theoryb> of value which states that equal amounts of <b>laborb> should receive equal pay. |  | | Mutualists believe that most of the economic problems associated with capitalism come back to a violation of the cost principle, or as Josiah Warren interchangeably said, "Cost the limit of price." It was inspired by the <b>laborb> <b>theoryb> of value, popularized, though not invented, by Adam Smith in 1776 --Proudhon mentions Smith as an inspiration. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutualism_(economic_theory)
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| | Exploitation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The focus of most assertions about the existence of exploitation is the socio-economic phenomenon in which people trade their <b>laborb> or allegiance to a powerful entity, such as the state, a corporation or any other private company, or a trade union. |  | | Pro-market <b>theoryb> also argues that technological change is a disruptive force, and tends to abolish monopoly and monopsonistic power in mature business sectors, as with the shrinkage of the Western Union corporation and its power. |  | | As in Marxist <b>theoryb>, the problem is structural rather than organizational and can coexist with free markets: given their special position in society (controlling an important asset), an interest group can shift the distribution of income in its direction, impoverishing the rest, even though their role serves no reasonable purpose. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploitation
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| | Classical Growth <b>Theoryb> |
 | | Marx took on Ricardo's idea that machinery is <b>laborb>-saving and leads to a disproportional adjustment: the rate of release of <b>laborb> does not accompany the rate of re-absorption of that <b>laborb>, so that there tends to be permanent "technological" unemployment which can be used to bring down the wage. |  | | For "modern" growth <b>theoryb>, Marx's achievement was critical: he not only provided, through his famous "reproduction" schema, perhaps the most rigorous formulation to date of a growth model, but he did so in a multi-sectoral context and provided, in the process, such critical ingredients as the concept of a "steady-state" growth equilibrium. |  | | This has two effects for growth: firstly, increasing landowner's rents over time (due to the limited supply of land) cut into the profits of capitalists from above; secondly, wage goods (from agriculture) will be rising in price over time and this then cuts into profits from below as workers require higher wages. |
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http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/essays/growth/classicalgrowth.htm
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| | <b>laborb> <b>theoryb> of value: Information From Answers.com |
 | | The <b>laborb> <b>theoryb> of value (LTV) is a <b>theoryb> in economics and political economy concerning a market-oriented or commodity -producing society: the <b>theoryb> equates the "value" of an exchangeable good or service (i.e., a commodity) with the amount of <b>laborb> required to produce it. |  | | In this <b>theoryb>, the receipt of property income is only possible if the wages of direct producers do not fully compensate them for the value they add to the capital invested to allow the production of the product. |  | | Assume that each p initially equals value so that for any given commodity, total profits are proportional to unpaid <b>laborb>-time (surplus-value, S), total wages are proportional to paid <b>laborb>-time ( W), and the total amount of money invested by the capitalist is proportional to the value of the capital invested ( K). |
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http://www.wip.answers.com/topic/labor-theory-of-value
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Exploitation <b>Theoryb> of Socialism-Communism: The Idea That All Unearned Income (Rent, Interest and Profit Involves Economic Injustice) |
 | | It is extremely unfortunate that the <b>laborb> <b>theoryb> of value and the exploitation <b>theoryb> are still prevalent today, over 110 years after _Value and Interest_ first appeared--this in spite of the "rivers of blood and oceans of tears" spilled in the name of socialism and communism. |  | | The notion of <b>laborb> exploitation by businessmen and corporations continues to determine basic economic policies on all levels of government, from <b>laborb> legislation to Social Security and income taxation. |  | | Exploitation <b>Theoryb> of Socialism-Communism: The Idea That All Unearned Income (Rent, Interest and Profit Involves Economic Injustice) |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/091088403X/seveejksa-sea-bkasin-20/ref=nosim
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| | XXI. WORK AND WAGES: Wages and Subsistence |
 | | The <b>laborb> unions pretend that nominal wage rates at least must always be raised in accordance with the changes occurring in the monetary unit's purchasing power in such a way as to secure to the wage earner the unabated enjoyment of the previous standard of living. |  | | The valuations of the consumers who mediately are the buyers of <b>laborb> and those of the wage earners, the sellers of <b>laborb>, are of no avail. |  | | Present-day <b>laborb>-union doctrine operates with a concept of productivity of <b>laborb> that is designedly constructed to provide an alleged ethical justification for syndicalistic ventures. |
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http://www.mises.org/humanaction/chap21sec6.asp
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| | A.1. WHAT ARE THE HISTORICAL ORIGINS OF MUTUALISM? |
 | | But more importantly, he presented a <b>theoryb> of exchange based on <b>laborb> that was later adopted by the cooperative movement as "labour notes." If the unemployed were enabled to support themselves through their own <b>laborb>, given the existing system of exchange, the extra production would just flood the market and drive down prices. |  | | That man is freely provided with raw materials by nature; That therefore in the economic order all products are the result of <b>laborb> and all capital is unproductive; That as all credit transactions can be reduced to a form of exchange, capital loans and discounts cannot and must not bear interest. |  | | On it depend all the mutualist institutions: mutual insurance, mutual credit, mutual aid, mutual education; reciprocal guarantees of openings, exchanges and <b>laborb> for good quality and fairly priced goods. |
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http://www.mutualist.org/id25.html
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| | Endogenous Growth <b>Theoryb> |
 | | Because Arrow claimed that new machines are improved and more productive versions of those in existence, investment does not only induce productivity growth of <b>laborb> on existing capital (as Kaldor would have it), but it would also improve the productivity of <b>laborb> upon all subsequent machines made in the economy. |  | | The need for a <b>theoryb> of technical change was there: according to some rather famous calculations from Solow (1957), 87.5% of growth in output in the United States between the years 1909 and 1949 could be ascribed to technological improvements alone. |  | | Namely, a social planner's marginal product of capital would be different as he would take the externality into account. |
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http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/essays/growth/endogenous.htm
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