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Article: The source of value and Ricardo: an historical reconstruction. (David Ricardo)
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- Atlantic Economic Journal
- Article date:
- December 1, 1992
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I. Introduction
As part of his recent survey of alternative judgements regarding Ricardo's contribution, Professor Arrow |1991, p. 73~ contends, "Ricardo's doctrines are taken to have two implications which later economists, both his immediate successors and the later marginalists, were concerned to deny: that labor is the source of all value and that profits have to be thought of as a deduction from output and therefore from labor's share."
In this paper it is argued that this view of Ricardo's treatment of the source value, a view Arrow apparently shares, is in its essentials incorrect. It is agreed that Ricardo held an embodied labor theory of the source ...