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Variation du salaire réel et surproduction générale : un aspect de l'opposition entre T.R. Malthus et R. Torrens

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[fre] Malthus soutient que l'accroissement du taux d'épargne des capitalistes peut être la cause de la surproduction générale, quand bien même les «bonnes proportions» seraient-eHes respectées. Sa critique de la loi de Say est donc distincte de celle de Torrens. Dans le débat avec Torrens ce dernier semble l'emporter. Nous montrons que le résultat de Malthus peut être obtenu grâce à un mécanisme spécifique de formation du salaire réel. Malthus se limite à en faire état ; il n'aperçoit pas le rôle décisif que ce mécanisme joue dans sa propre théorie. Ainsi s'explique, selon nous, la faiblesse de son argumentation lors de la controverse avec Torrens. [eng] Malthus argues that an increase in the rate of saving of the capitalists may be the cause of a general glut, whenever «right proportions» would be respected. His critique of Say's law is thus distinct from Torrens'one. In this controversy Torrens seems to win. We show that Malthus' result may be achieved thanks to a specific mechanism of the real wage formation. Malthus bounds himself to mention it ; but he does not perceive the decisive role which this mechanism plays in his own theory. There lies, it seems, the weakness of his argument in his controversy with Torrens.

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  • Catherine Martin, 1986. "Variation du salaire réel et surproduction générale : un aspect de l'opposition entre T.R. Malthus et R. Torrens," Cahiers d'Économie Politique, Programme National Persée, vol. 12(1), pages 73-88.
  • Handle: RePEc:prs:caecpo:cep_0154-8344_1986_num_12_1_1030
    DOI: 10.3406/cep.1986.1030
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    1. Martin, Catherine, 2003. "Une ambiguïté de la relation entre Keynes et Malthus : Rejet de la loi de Say, monnaie et rapport salarial," L'Actualité Economique, Société Canadienne de Science Economique, vol. 79(1), pages 117-132, Mars-Juin.
    2. Catherine Martin, 1998. "Réalisation de la demande effective et comportement des entrepreneurs : Une étude du chapitre 3 de la Théorie générale de Keynes," Cahiers d'Économie Politique, Programme National Persée, vol. 30(1), pages 85-104.

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