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Exploring Economics Lectures 06: A theory of value for a new political economy

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This lecture shows that the Labour Theory of Value is incompatible with the Laws of Thermodynamics and is therefore fundamentally false. This Theory is also incompatible with Marx’s dialectical philosophy, which is consistent with the Laws of Thermodynamics and with the philosophy of organicism that Winslow argued underlay Keynes’s approach to economics. I show that ...

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This lecture shows that the Labour Theory of Value is incompatible with the Laws of Thermodynamics and is therefore fundamentally false. This Theory is also incompatible with Marx’s dialectical philosophy, which is consistent with the Laws of Thermodynamics and with the philosophy of organicism that Winslow argued underlay Keynes’s approach to economics. I show that this philosophy can provide a coherent and structured approach to building a realistic new political economy.



This is the final of six lectures I recorded that I gave to the Exploring Economics Summer School (https://www.exploring-economics.org/en/summer-academy/details/) held just outside the city of Erfurt in southern Germany (I recorded all but the second lecture).



Steve Keen
Steve Keen (born 28 March 1953) is an Australian-born, British-based economist and author. He considers himself a post-Keynesian, criticising neoclassical economics as inconsistent, unscientific and empirically unsupported. The major influences on Keen's thinking about economics include John Maynard Keynes, Karl Marx, Hyman Minsky, Piero Sraffa, Augusto Graziani, Joseph Alois Schumpeter, Thorstein Veblen, and François Quesnay.

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