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La determinación de los precios en la teoría económica de Sir James Steuart

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  • Tobón Arias, Alexander de Jesús

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Resumen: Este artículo tiene como objetivo interpretar la teoría de los precios de Sir James Steuart. Para tal fin, se adopta la perspectiva clásica de los precios de producción, razón por la cual es necesario introducir hipótesis que justifiquen en Steuart la existencia de un excedente productivo y su norma de distribución. Sin embargo, los precios son determinados por los comerciantes y no por los productores, a través de un proceso teórico que implica distinguir dos etapas analíticas: por un lado, el acto privado del comerciante que determina los precios de venta y, por otro lado, el acto colectivo o competitivo que determina los precios de compra o de mercado. Al final se muestra que, si bien se puede justificar un análisis de los precios desde una perspectiva clásica, Steuart conserva su lugar en la tradición mercantilista. / Abstract : The aim of this paper is to interpret James Steuart’s theory of prices. To achieve this purpose, specials hypothesis about the surplus and his distribution rule are included into the classical theory of production prices. However, prices are determined by merchants and not by manufacturers, through a theoretical process that involves two analytical stages: on the one hand, the private act of the merchant determines the sales prices and, on the other hand, the collective or competitive act of the merchants determines the purchase prices. Although it is possible to demonstrate an affiliation of Stueart's thinking to the classical approach, he continues as a mercantilist economist.

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  • Tobón Arias, Alexander de Jesús, 2017. "La determinación de los precios en la teoría económica de Sir James Steuart," Borradores Departamento de Economía 17511, Universidad de Antioquia, CIE.
  • Handle: RePEc:col:000196:017511
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    Keywords

    mercantilismo; equilibrio clásico; James Steuart; teoría clásica; precios relativos;
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    JEL classification:

    • B11 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought through 1925 - - - Preclassical (Ancient, Medieval, Mercantilist, Physiocratic)
    • 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

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