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Bertram Schefold
schefold@wiwi.uni-frankfurt.de
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0532-7358
Bertram Schefold
Faculty of Economics and Business, Goethe University Frankfurt, FB2, Theodor-W.-Adorno-Platz 4, 60323 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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Abstract
The focus of debate on capital theory still is on the macroeconomic aggregate production function, almost seventy years after Joan Robinson attacked this concept. It has turned out that reswitching is rare in large systems. Reswitching and reverse capital deepening once were the most effective arguments against the production function. Later it was shown that an approximate surrogate production function could be constructed, using the approach of random matrices. This seemed to weaken the critique, but a new one has emerged, which shows that the number of effective techniques on the wage curve is small and that the possibilities of substitution between capital and labour are quite restricted in the relevant range or profit. This paper reconstructs the path by which the new results were arrived at and presents a new variant of the proof of zero substitution.
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Goldberg, G. – Neumann, M. (2003): Distribution of Subdominant Eigenvalues of Matrices with Random Rows. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Journal on Matrix Analysis and Application, 24(3): 747–761.
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Schefold, B. (1971): Piero Sraffas Theorie der Kuppelproduktion, des Kapitals und der Rente. Dissertation, main part in English, entitled “Mr. Sraffa on Joint Production”, Basel: Privat publication.
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Schefold, B. (1976a): Reduction to Dated Quantities of Labour, Roundabout Processes, and Switches of Technique in Fixed Capital Systems. Metroeconomica ,28: 1-15.
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Schefold, B. (1976b): Relative Prices as a Function of the Rate of Profit. Zeitschrift für Nationalökonomie ,36: 21-48.
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Schefold, B. (1989): Mr. Sraffa on Joint Production and Other Essays .London: Unwin & Hyman.
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Schefold, B. (2008a): C.E.S. Production Functions in the Light of the Cambridge Critique. Journal of Macroeconomics ,30(2): 783–797.
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Schefold, B. (2008b): Families of Strongly Curved and of Nearly Linear Wage Curves: A Contribution to the Debate about the Surrogate Production Function. Bulletin of Political Economy ,2(1): 1–24. (With revisions in Schefold 2010).
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Schefold (2008c): Savings, Investment and Capital in a System of General Intertemporal Equilibrium: An Extended Comment on Garegnani with a Note on Parinello. In: Chiodi, G. – Ditta, L. (eds): Sraffa or an Alternative Economics .Basingstoke: Macmillan, pp. 127–184.
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Schefold, B. (2010): Families of Strongly Curved and of Nearly Linear Wage Curves: A Contribution to the Debate about the Surrogate Production Function. In: Economic Theory and Economic Thought. Essays in Honour of Ian Steedman .London – New York: Routledge, pp. 117–137.
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Schefold, B. (2013a): Approximate Surrogate Production Functions. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 37(5): 1161–1184.
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Schefold, B. (2013b): Only a Few Techniques Matter! On the Number of Curves on the Wage Frontier. In: Levrero, E. S. – Palumbo, A. – Stirati, A. (eds): Sraffa and the Reconstruction of Economic Theory, Vol. 1: Theories of Value and Distribution. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 46–69.
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Schefold, B. (2016a): Profits Equal Surplus Value on Average and the Significance of this Result for the Marxian Theory of Accumulation: Being a New Contribution to Engels' Prize Essay Competition, based on random matrices and on manuscripts recently published in the MEGA for the first time. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 40(1): 165–199.
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Schefold, B. (2016b): Marx, the Production Function and the Old Neoclassical Equilibrium: Workable under the Same Assumptions? With an Appendix on the Likelihood of Reswitching and of Wicksell Effects. Centro Sraffa Working Papers, No. 19.
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Schefold, B. (2019a): Continuity and Change in the Transition from the Classical to the Neoclassical Theory of Normal Prices. In: Rosselli, A. – Naldi, N. – Sanfilippo, E. (eds): Money Finance and Crises in Economic History. The Long-Term Impact of Economic Ideas .London – New York: Routledge, pp. 11–26.
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Schefold, B. (2019b): The Transformation of Values into Prices on the Basis of Random Systems Revisited. Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review,16(2): 261–302.
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Schefold, B. (2021): Transformations of the Cambridge Critique. The Indian Economic Journal, 69(2): 241–254.
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Schefold, B. (2022): The Rarity of Reswitching Explained. Centro Sraffa Working Paper, Roma Tre University.
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Shaikh, A. – Coronado, J. A. – Nassif-Pires, L. (2020): On the Statistical Regularities of Prices of Production. European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies ,17(2): 265–275.
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Economics 334/380 |
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Economics and Econometrics 521/705 (26th PCTL) TBA |
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| Web of Science | |
| Total Cites WoS |
285 |
| Journal Impact Factor | 0,939 |
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0,646 |
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0,740 |
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15 |
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0,285 |
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1,4 |
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Economics and Econometrics 436/696 (Q3) |
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0,875 |
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| Impact Factor | 0,534 |
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| Citable | 37 |
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| Total | 0 |
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| Scimago | 13 |
| H-index | |
| Scimago | 0,292 |
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12 |
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0,439 |
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214/165=1,3 |
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Economics and Econometrics 355/637 (Q3) |
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