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Let us consider a typical theorem of Marx in Capital, the law of value. It says that the prices of commodities are formed with respect to their values (the amount of socially indispensable time to produce these commodities). But that holds only under certain conditions. Let us try to reconstruct them.
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As Lange (1) has shown, formulations of this type are not correct from the point of view of the modern theory of decision.
My italics will be marked with the initials ‘L.N.’ in this book.
Translation is corrected here.
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Nowak, L. (1980). Case Study: The Theory of Value. In: The Structure of Idealization. Synthese Library, vol 139. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7651-2_1
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