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Value theory, thermodynamics and dialectics

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Only one school of economic thought came close to getting the relationship between energy and economics right: the Physiocrats. I give a basic outline of thermodynamics, then explain why any theory of production which doesn’t acknowledge the fundamental role of energy in creating economic value is wrong–including the “Marxian” labor theory of value. I then ...

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Only one school of economic thought came close to getting the relationship between energy and economics right: the Physiocrats. I give a basic outline of thermodynamics, then explain why any theory of production which doesn’t acknowledge the fundamental role of energy in creating economic value is wrong–including the “Marxian” labor theory of value. I then introduce Marx’s dialectical philosophy, which I cover in more detail in the next 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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