Defining and Measuring Value

SESSION 1: DEFINING AND MEASURING VALUE Friday 9am Chair: Alan Freeman Estimating Gross Domestic Product Using a Surplus Value Approach Victor Kasper, Buffalo State College,USA [email protected] Department of Economics and Finance, Buffalo State College, 1300 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo, NY 14222-1095 Modelling profit-rate distributions using L-moments Julian Wells, The Open University,UK The Open University, Milton Keynes UK On the Identity of Value and Labour: A Defence of Intrinsic Value Phil Dunn, Independent,Britain [email protected] 55 Bonnington Square London SW8 1TF SESSION 2: VALUE IN THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT Friday 11am Chair: Phil Dunn On Price and Value William Krehm, Independent Economist, Canada [email protected] Stigler and Barkai on Ricardo's Profit Rate Theory: Some methodological considerations 35 years later Andrew Kliman, Pace University,USA [email protected] Assistant Professor, Economics, Department of Social Sciences, Pace University, Pleasantville, NY 10570 USA The Labour Theory of Value: Economics or Ethics? Peter Dooley, University of Saskatchewan, Canada [email protected] SESSION 3: DOES THE SRAFFIAN CRITIQUE OF MARX SUCCEED? Friday 2pm Chair: Julian Wells Discussants: Alan Freeman and Andrew Kliman Vulgar Economy in Marxian Garb: A Critique of Temporal Single System Marxism Gary Mongiovi, St John's University,USA [email protected] St John's University, Economics and Finance Department, Jamaica, New York 11439, USA SESSION 4: GOVERNMENT, POLICY AND CRITICAL ECONOMICS Friday 4pm Chair: Andrew Kliman Current Factors Which Make Science a Productive Force at the Service of Capital – the Fourth Stage in the Running London: Practical Economics in a Growing World City Alan Freeman, University of Greenwich,UK [email protected] 62d Tunnel Avenue London SE10 0SD UK Production Organization Dimitri Uzinidis, Universite du Littoral, Dunkerque,France [email protected] Laboratoire Redéploiement Industriel et Innovation Université du Littoral Dunkerque, France Self-administration: ‘solution via value’ to the urban transportation’s problems Vladimir Micheletti, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Brasil,Brasil [email protected] Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Brasil