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 A reply to correspondence on Marx's theory of value
In attempting to explain the value of a product, the cost of production theory reduces its value to the value of the factors of production which have been used to produce it.
According to this theory, the value of the hamburger, or its selling price, is determined by adding up the cost of the “factors of production”—the land, labour and capital—which have been used up in its production.
Although you are obviously quite unaware of the history of this question, the various theories of value you advance reproduce, in a confused form, the positions adopted at different points by the bourgeois economists in the 19th century as they sought to develop a theoretical basis for capitalism.
www.wsws.org /articles/1999/aug1999/val1-a13.shtml   (4316 words)

  
 value.txt
Cost consists in means of production having manifold applications, like iron, coal, and common labor, which even when they are employed in the production of a single commodity, are still estimated according to the value which they have in all their applications.
In both views the cost of the production of capital reduced to labor is substituted for capital; on the former hypothesis it is the cost which has been involved in accumulating capital from the beginning of economic history, in the latter the outlay which is necessary to reproduce the capital consumed.
One principle is that value is derived from utility, and quite in harmony with this principle, we assert that cost is, after all, according to the general law of value, that of marginal utility, measured by utility alone.
socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca /~econ/ugcm/3ll3/wieser/value.txt   (9153 words)

  
 Cost-of-production theory of value - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
However, Marx's theory is not a true cost-of-production theory since the value of a commodity contains a component of surplus value unrelated to the physical cost of producing it.
In economics, the cost-of-production theory of value is the belief that the value of an object is decided by the resources that went into making it.
The most common counterpoint to this is the marginal theory of value which asserts that economic value is set by the consumer's marginal utility.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cost-of-production_theory_of_value   (265 words)

  
 Production, costs, and pricing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This production information can then be combined with market information (like demand and marginal revenue) to determine the quantity of products to produce and the optimum price to charge.
Production decisions concentrate on what goods to produce, how to produce them, the costs of producing them, and optimizing the mix of resource inputs used in their production.
In microeconomics, production is the act of making things, in particular the act of making products that will be traded or sold commercially.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Production,_costs,_and_pricing   (245 words)

  
 More on Used Car Value
So, for instance, in economic theory value is often defined as "willingness to pay," despite the fact that few people actually assent to such a definition, or even exhibit such an understanding of value in their lives.
Value is a term that expresses the concept of worth in general, and it is thought to be connected to reasons for certain practices, policies or actions.
Others see values as part of his sociopolitical interpretation and critique of capitalism and other societies, and deny that it was intended to serve as a category of economics.
www.eduhistory.com /used-car-value.htm   (1308 words)

  
 waiting.htm
The costs, though, are nothing but forgone utilities and are just as subjective as the marginal utilities of the pins and televisions sets.
In another he suggests that for value theory to be subjective it must explain the relative prices of goods exclusively in terms of their marginal utilities.
The concept of waiting as a factor of production is not at all new to the students of economics.
www.auburn.edu /~garriro/waiting.htm   (4524 words)

  
 Marginalism
Previously it had been believed that the value of an item was a reflection of the work and resources devoted to making it, or the cost-of-production theory of value.
The marginal theory of value was first broached in the 1870s, and it revolutionised economics.
In economics, marginalism is the belief that economic value is set by the consumer's marginal utility.
www.city-search.org /ma/marginalism.html   (585 words)

  
 FNF:  HAGSAGA:  HUGMYNDAFRÆÐIN (e. History of Economic Thought)     2001-04-08
Although Galiani vaguely accounted for the cost of production in his utility value theory, he failed to develop it into a fully-fledged supply and demand analysis.
The debate on the theory of value, which was initiated in Ancient Greece and which became dormant during the Middle Ages, later re-emerged at the close of the seventeenth century to dominate economic thought for the next 200 years.
Unfortunately, for the development of value theory, this dualistic analysis was suppressed for almost 200 years, until its resurrection at the close of the 19th century.
www.hi.is /~joner/eaps/wh_econh.htm   (5115 words)

  
 Classical_economics
Ricardo also had what might be described as a cost of production theory of value.
It was largely displaced by marginalist schools of thought (such as the Austrian School) who saw value to derive from the marginal utility that consumers found in a good rather than the cost of the inputs that made up the product.
In contrast to the Classical theory, the determinants of the neoclassical theory of value - (1) tastes, (2) technology, and (3) endowments are seen as exogeneous to neoclassical economics.
www.usedaudiparts.com /search.php?title=Classical_economics   (676 words)

  
 The Foundations of Price Theory published by Pickering & Chatto
He is Director of the Walras-Pareto Research Centre and the author and editor of various books and articles in monetary theory and the history of economic thought.
‘This is a well-chosen selection of classical writings about price theory, that ‘jewel in the crown’ of mainstream economic theory, with a number of sparkling introductions to the various phases of its history….
Price theory has always been at the heart of economic theory.
www.pickeringchatto.com /pricetheory.htm   (355 words)

  
 Delv.co.uk: theory of value websites in the UK
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www.michael-jackson.org.uk /jacko/theory_of_value.html   (132 words)

  
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www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/co/cost-of-production_theory...   (121 words)

  
 sq5
How is Ricardo's modified theory similar to and/or different from Smith's cost of production theory of value?
Summarize Ricardo's critique of Smith's theory of exchange?value.
What is the effect of an increase in the productivity of labor on the value of commodities?
www.mtholyoke.edu /courses/fmoseley/thought/sq05.html   (251 words)

  
 Knowledge & Progress C7
the "social individual" is the basis of the "abstract labour theory of value", an economic perspective which is inclusive of the subjective preference (individual) and cost-of-production (social) theories of value
an alternative explanation of economic experience is the cost-of-production theory of value (appropriate economic policy often referred to as "Keynesian economics")
...social (and technical) conditions of production (the cost-of- production theory of value)
www.uea.ac.uk /~d196/actionaid/sectionc/C7EconTh&EconIll.htm   (714 words)

  
 wikien.info: Main_Page
The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith
www.alanaditescili.net /index.php?title=List_of_economics_topics   (183 words)

  
 Index.Cost
Create graphs of the important cost concepts including total, fixed, variable, average, and marginal cost when given cost and production data — and be able to explain them.
Define economies of scale and economies of scope, describe their significance and that factors that contribute to them, and be able to identify them when given a production information.
Define the important cost concepts including total, fixed, variable, average, and marginal cost and be able to compute them when given cost and production data.
www.uri.edu /artsci/ecn/mead/INT1/Mic/CostProduction/Index.Cost.html   (253 words)

  
 miclec
A major objective of this lecture is to provide the background for working through a comprehensive example of deriving all of the cost functions from a generalized production model.
Some of the topics included in this lecture are forms of production functions, law of diminishing returns, marginal rate of technical substitution, homothetic functions, returns to scale, elasticity of substitution, and the dual problem in production.
The lecture focuses on using the theory of consumer demand to describe the outcome of changes in the external environment.
www.mtsu.edu /~dgraddy/micro/miclec.htm   (402 words)

  
 Cost-of-production theory of value - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
However, Marx's theory is not a true cost-of-production theory since the value of a commodity contains a component of surplus value unrelated to the physical cost of producing it.
The labor theory of value, which interprets labor-value as the determinant of prices, was first developed by Adam Smith and later expanded by David Ricardo and Karl Marx.
The most common counterpoint to this is the marginal theory of value which asserts that economic value is set by the consumer's marginal utility.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cost-of-production_theory_of_value   (265 words)

  
 zhou2.htm
This is particularly appropriate for neoclassical trade theory, which attributes the cause of differing comparative cost to resource endowment and industrial resource use intensity, instead of labor productivity itself as in the classical trade theory.
From this viewpoint, location theory is a sort of follow-up study involving elements at a local scale after the general trade pattern is determined at a larger scale.
As shown above, the comparative cost is the ratio of numeraire productivity to productivity of a commodity.
www.siue.edu /GEOGRAPHY/ONLINE/zhou2.htm   (6366 words)

  
 IT_THEOR
Modern descriptions and illustration of the comparative cost theory tends to abandon the labor theory of value and instead concentrates on the matter of substitution between the commodities as well as the technical substitution of factors of production in the process of production.
It is a positive-sum view where trade allows specialization, increased production and reduced costs through reduced waste of resources in production.
This means that as resources are withdrawn from the production of alternative goods and service costs of production per unit of the output increase.
members.aol.com /jimkhwaja/economic/trade/it_theor.htm   (936 words)

  
 New Page 1
Topics will include an analysis of individual and market behavior, an economic theory of consumer behavior, economic theories of production and cost, competitive and noncompetitive market structures, externalities, and general equilibrium analysis.
The Economics of the Firm: Production and Cost......6,7
We will have three exams, each worth 20% of your semester grade and a comprehensive final exam worth 30%.
cob.jmu.edu /hornrn/ECON331/econ331.htm   (554 words)

  
 MicroQEDprogram.doc
Producer theory (3 lectures) Reading: MWG 5 Topics: Production sets, production with a single output, cost minimization, the geometry of cost functions, aggregation, efficient production, constant returns technologies.
Consumer theory (8 lectures) Reading: MWG 2A-D, 1B, 3A-D, 2E, 3E, 3G, 3I, 4B Topics: The basics of economic analysis, introduction to the consumer problem, classical demand theory, properties of utility and demand functions, solving the consumer problem, welfare evaluation, aggregation, consumption with endowments, consumption over time.
This class assumes a basic knowledge of intermediate microeconomics, and some level of mathematical sophistication, particularly with respect to optimization.
merlin.fae.ua.es /iturbe/MicroQEDprogram.doc   (950 words)

  
 Dale Jorgenson's Collected Works
In models of production with internal costs of adjustment, like those presented in section 1.7 of chapter 1, the cost of capital input must be inferred from the shadow value of the adjustment costs.
The theory of marginal productivity completes the theory of production; this may be identified with the gradient of the production function.
By strengthening convexity assumptions for the production and profit functions we are able to develop the theory of production in terms of properties of differentiable convex functions and their gradients.
www.economics.harvard.edu /faculty/jorgenson/colwork/econp1.html   (6470 words)

  
 The Production Decision: First Approach
However, in Paretian theory, both these decisions are usually out of the hands of individual producers: both the pricing of output and the scale of production are usually determined by the "market" in a general equilibrium context.
In the Marshallian theory of production, which we cover elsewhere, price-setting is one of the central aspects of the producer's decision, but in the Paretian theory, producers consider prices as "given".
Thus, for a minimum, the (negative of the) slope of the lowest isocost curve must equal the ratio of marginal products, or MRTS, which, as we know, is the (negative of the) slope of the isoquant Y*.
cepa.newschool.edu /het/essays/product/decision.htm   (4070 words)

  
 THEORIES.02
The Heckscher-Ohlin (H-O) theory of comparative advantage holds that international trade is organised on the basis of relative production costs.
Linder's (1961) theory of intraindustry trade and overlapping market segments suggests that trade is strongest between nations that exhibit similar income levels, similar cost structures, and similar factor proportions.
Essentially, Porter's theory of national competitiveness is a variant of cluster-based production theory.
www.acsu.buffalo.edu /~geoadm/Geo333/THEORIES.02   (4742 words)

  
 Production Theory and the Stock Market
But risky firms' outputs depend on financial as well as cost variables, and the equilibrium conditions lead to a theory of production under uncertainty which replaces the now-vacuous notion of profit maximization.
But stockholders can alter their distributions of returns by altering firms' production decisions as well as by altering their portfolios.
Our theory indicates that, in a stochastic environment, production and financial variables are inextricably interrelated.
www.rje.org /abstracts/abstracts/1974/Spring_1974._pp._125_144.html   (217 words)

  
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His software product OPT was a failure, the plant that was the model for his book "The Goal" failed, and his Theory of Constraints is nothing like a theory...
In this intriguing, readable business novel, which illustrates state-of-the-art economic theory, Alex Rogo is a UniCo plant manager whose factory and marriage are failing.
While it is true that thru-put is determined by the slowest process, cost and quality are often determined by non-constraint processes.
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 Land ownership vs oil endowment
These nations are always referred to as oil producing nations, because the sum total of production takes into account such indices as land, capital, labor, machinery, etc. In this wild volley, he posits that those areas where oil is produced do not contribute anything to the production.
So, I engaged my daughter in a dialogue on production costs, owners equity and land as a factor of production.
And in calculating production cost, land is always a constant factor.
www.nigerdeltacongress.com /karticles/land_ownership_vs_oil_endowment.htm   (1133 words)

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