Understanding and overcoming the “positive profits with negative surplus-value” paradox
ABSTRACT This paper explains the “positive profits with negative surplus-value” example of Steedman (1975) and shows that while in joint production systems individual labour values can be negative, the claim that the total labour embodied in the surplus product of the economy (surplus-value) can als...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Editora 34
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| Series: | Brazilian Journal of Political Economy |
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| Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-31572017000300587&lng=en&tlng=en |