Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/56555 
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Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
MAGKS Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics No. 50-2011
Publisher: 
Philipps-University Marburg, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, Marburg
Abstract: 
This paper compares the models of Arrow and Debreu [1954] and Sraffa [1960], and concludes that (1) the models are informationally distinct conceptions of a capitalist economy, (2) they support radically distinct - though complete and entirely correct - theories of value, (3) the prices in the two theories are different both in terms of definitions and values, (4) in Sraffa's model it is impossible to define constant returns to scale, while in Arrow-Debreu this property is admissible, and (5) in Arrow-Debreu the interpersonal income distribution is determined whereas in Sraffa's model the distribution of income between workers and capitalists is undetermined.
Subjects: 
constant returns to scale
theory of value
relations of production
counterfactual information
prices
exchange values
income distribution
general equilibrium
capital
marginal product
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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