『産業民主制論』におけるウエッブ経済学の転換

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Before their marriage, Sidney and Beatrice Webb, the prevailing Fabians, separately studied theoretical economics, which made both of them critical towards Karl Marx. Both found his labour theory of value absurd because they thought he had ignored the importance of demand, which was crucial to determine the prices of commodities. However, when they came to analyse the question of wages and propose their socialistic idea of the National Minimum standard of living in their book Industrial Democracy (1894), they had to admit that in real life the cost of the reproduction of labour was more decisive than the marginal productivity of it in wage bargaining. This article tries to expose their shift from a demand sided view of value theory to a supply sided one while pointing out some deficiencies in their prospects of the National Minimum to be realized.
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