By G. C. Harcourt
Capital conception frequently spans significant booths of monetary idea: the speculation of construction of either person items and the complete product, and the speculation of the distribution of the combination product among different sessions of capitalist society. It has regularly been debatable, in part as the material is tough and in part simply because rival ideologies and price platforms impinge at once at the subject material. within the current e-book many of the subject matters linked to the exchanges among the 'neo-Keynesians' and the 'neo-neoclassicals' are mentioned and evaluated. the themes contain the size of capital, the revival of curiosity in Irving Fisher's expense of go back on funding, the double-switching debate, Sraffa's prelude to a critique of neoclassical thought, and the 'new' theories of the speed of gains in capitalist society.
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1 In this chapter we use Solow's famous 1957 article to illustrate the approach. Solow assumed a coiistant-returns-to-scale aggregate production function, static expectations and competitive conditions. It followed that paying factors their marginal products exhausted the total product, which consisted of a Clark-Ramsey one all-purpose commodity, see J. B. Clark [1889], Ramsey [1928]. (Capital may then be measured in the same units as output, remembering that one is a stock, the other a flow, see Solow [1956a], p.
2 1 am indebted to Ian Steedman for suggesting these diagrams to me. 42 Search for a will-o'-the-wisp Fig. 4. Negative price Wicksell effect We may identify a positive real Wicksell effect as one in which a technique with a higher output per head and higher value of capital per head at a switch point is chosen at a rate of profits just below the switch-point rate of profits. Thus, in fig. 6, technique b, having been equi-profitable with a at rab, becomes the more profitable at rates of interest Iv) Because jS is the ratio of the marginal to the average product of capital it is the elasticity of output with respect to capital. vi) Swan's Way 37 [1970a], Harcourt [1970b] and chapter 2, pp. 65-6, below. g. g. those relating to output. We find in Swan's appendix perhaps the first and certainly the clearest statement of the notorious malleability assumption which underlies many neoclassical growth models and econometric exercises, for example, Swan [1956], Solow [1956b, 1957], Meade [1961].