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A General Refutation of Okishio’s Theorem and a Proof of the Falling Rate of Profit

In: Marxian Economics: A Reappraisal

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It is almost universally believed that Okishio’s (1961) justly celebrated theorem disproves Marx’s analysis of the tendency of the profit rate to fall, by showing that if real wages stay constant the rate of profit rises as a result of productivity-enhancing technical change. All attempted refutations accept Okishio’s approach which like many others, notably the surplus approach school, is based a system of simultaneous linear equalities.

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  • Alan Freeman, 1998. "A General Refutation of Okishio’s Theorem and a Proof of the Falling Rate of Profit," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Riccardo Bellofiore (ed.), Marxian Economics: A Reappraisal, chapter 10, pages 139-162, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-26121-5_10
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-26121-5_10
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    Keywords

    Total Stock; Profit Rate; Transformation Problem; General Equilibrium Theory; Simultaneous System;
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    JEL classification:

    • B50 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - General
    • O30 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - General
    • O10 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - General
    • B41 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Economic Methodology - - - Economic Methodology
    • B24 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought since 1925 - - - Socialist; Marxist; Scraffian
    • B51 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Current Heterodox Approaches - - - Socialist; Marxian; Sraffian
    • O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
    • B20 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought since 1925 - - - General

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