A Promoção do Desenvolvimento Sustentável e a Teoria Marxista dos Preços: Uma Análise da Importância das Rendas Diferenciais
The ecological problems that threaten the sustainability of the development of contemporary societies have emphasized the importance of the effects of the scarcity of natural resources on economic activity, especially for your influence on prices. In this article, we argue that, in Marxism, the anal...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Portuguese |
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Universidade Regional do Noroeste do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul
2018-01-01
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| Series: | Desenvolvimento em Questão |
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| Online Access: | http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=75256208002 |
| Summary: | The ecological problems that threaten the sustainability of the development of contemporary societies have emphasized the importance of the effects of the scarcity of natural resources on economic activity, especially for your influence on prices. In this article, we argue that, in Marxism, the analysis of this phenomenon is hampered by the limited role attributed to differential rents on price formation, which helps to explain the productivist stance of some Marxist currents. In the first section a study of a supply curve demonstrate that prices, quantitatively, match the marginal costs. In the second section is proposed a model of the theory of differential rent that permits a Marxist interpretation of prices as marginal values. In the third section, the model is employed to demonstrate the incompatibility of Marxist theory of differential rent with the presumption of the equalization of profit rates as a necessary condition to efficient prices formation. It is concluded that the differential rent theory of Marx should be employed to analyze the pricing in a broader way than how it is commonly regarded because the formation of differential incomes always occurs when the relationships between price and production can be described by an increasing function, what makes the profit an inefficient criterion for resource allocation. Thus, the results obtained show that the problems arising from inadequate pricing of natural resources comes from the contradictions, typical of capitalism, caused by the private ownership of social wealth by means of profit. |
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| ISSN: | 1678-4855 2237-6453 |