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Marx on Wage Determination and the Classical Economists

In Chapter 19 of volume 1 of Capital Marx quotes the Classical economics on wage determination: “Classical political economy borrowed from every-day life the category ‘price of labour’ without further criticism, and then simply asked the question, how is this price determined? It soon recognized that the change in the relations of demand and supply explained in regard to the price of labour, as of all other commodities, nothing except its changes, i.e., the oscillations of the market price...

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