The Corn Model, Gluts and Surplus Value.

The controversy over Ricardo’s corn model has focussed on the interpretation of his early writings. Here Ricardo’s later use of a corn model example in his dispute with Malthus over gluts is discussed. Malthus’s own extensive use of a corn model in attempting to justify his use of a labour commanded...

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Main Author: Glyn, A
Format: Working paper
Published: Department of Economics (University of Oxford) 2004
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description The controversy over Ricardo’s corn model has focussed on the interpretation of his early writings. Here Ricardo’s later use of a corn model example in his dispute with Malthus over gluts is discussed. Malthus’s own extensive use of a corn model in attempting to justify his use of a labour commanded measure of value is analysed; it is shown that he calculates what Marx was to describe as surplus vale from the physical conductions of production and the real wage.
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