Abstract

FUJIMOTO, Takao  and  EKUNI, Fumiko. Abstract Labour in a Model of Joint Production. Polít. cult. [online]. 2011, n.35, pp.243-261. ISSN 0188-7742.

This paper presents a new mathematical method for constructing abstract labour as conceived by Karl Marx, in a general input-output model with joint production and heterogeneous labour. A brief history of previous efforts to define and compose abstract labour using input-output models is also described. A numerical example is given to show how our method works in a concrete way.

Keywords : abstract labour; eigenvalue; eigenvector; heterogeneous labour; Kakutani fixed point theorem.

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