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Reply to Cockshott and Cottrell
* Pace University
Address for correspondence: Department of Economics, Pace University, 861 Bedford Rd., Pleasantville, NY 10570, USA; email: akliman{at}pace.edu
This note reaffirms the author's conclusion that measured pricevalue correlations have been tainted by the influence of industry size and are therefore spurious. Deflation of sectoral prices and values by costs destroys the correlation only because the theory in question is false, as the author's original paper proved deductively. Cockshott and Cottrell's results do not refute this proof. Deflation destroys the correlation between their simulated prices and values precisely because their simulation model assumes that the theory is false.
Key Words: Labour theory of value Price theory Inputoutput analysis
JEL classifications: B24, D46, D57
Manuscript received July 18, 2003;
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