Over at the New York Times Room for Debate:
I have long thought that Marx's fixation on the labor theory of value made his technical economic analyses of little worth. Marx was dead certain for ontological reasons that exchange-value was created by human socially-necessary labor time and by that alone, and that after its creation exchange-value could be transferred and redistributed but never enlarged or diminished. Thus he vanished into the swamp, the dark waters closed over his head, and was never seen again. READ MOAR at the Equitablog.
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His NYTimes piece is here - http://www.nytimes.c...ility-to-reinvent
There are comments at all 3 places.
Cheers,
Scott.