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Titre Machinisme et lois du marché chez D. Ricardo.
Auteur Antoine Rebeyrol
Mir@bel Revue Cahiers d'économie politique
Numéro no 12, printemps 1986 La demande effective dans la pensée classique : reproduction et crises économiques
Rubrique / Thématique
La demande effective dans la Pensée Classique : reproduction et crises économiques
Page 89-104
Résumé anglais The article shows that Ricardo, by describing the decline of employment as a consequence of mechanization, introduces in Chapter XXXI of his Principles a quantity effect which is not related to the laws of adjustment of relative price and activity level structures. This effect does not stem from the adoption but rather from the rejection of the wage-fund theory which, according to Ricardo, is incompatible with the existence of exchanges between capitalist agents. Finally, if the existence of this effect is not disproved by the operation of the goods market, it nevertheless shows that for Ricardo the «overpopulation» cannot be considered as a competitive force, i.e. as an excess supply on the labour market.
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