Falling Rate of Profit Under Constant Rate of Exploitation

嘉宾介绍

梁俊尚（Junshang  Liang），马萨诸塞州立大学阿姆赫斯特分校（University of Massachusetts Amherst）博士生。主攻方向：马克思主义政治经济学。研究课题：对利润率下降规律的数理和计量考察，技术进步问题，价值-价格转形问题，资本主义官方统计体系与政治经济学经典范畴的适配等。文章发表于Science & Society，《马克思主义研究》等期刊。

报告主题

The Okishio Theorem is often used to nullify Marx’s law of tendency of the rate of profit to fall, which, however, relies on a peculiar assumption: constant real wage. This paper attempts to re-evaluate Marx’s law by instead using his original assumption: constant rate of exploitation. It turns out that if a capital-using and labor-saving technical change takes place in the consumption goods department, the general rate of profit will definitely fall; if it takes place in the capital goods department, whether the rate of profit will rise or fall depends on the initial state of the economy as well as the relative magnitude of the technical change. For the latter case, a meaningful threshold condition governing its direction of movement is derived.
 

【讲座地点】：清华大学明斋241

【主办单位】：清华大学社科学院经济所

【讲座时间】：2019年10月22日（周二）上午9:00-11：00

【主 持 人】：李帮喜（清华大学社科学院经济所副教授）