Reinterpretación de la "depreciación por evaporación", "depreciación exponencial" o "desintegración radiactiva" de los bienes de capital fijo dentro de la teoría clásica de los precios

  1. Matilla García, Mariano
  2. Ibáñez, Félix
Journal:
REC Revista de economía crítica

ISSN: 1696-0866,  2013-5254

Year of publication: 2003

Issue: 2

Pages: 145-168

Type: Article

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Abstract

In this paper it is proven that the treatment of Fixed Capi-tal in terms of joint production, according to the procedure utilized by vonNeumann and Sraffa by considering fixed capital goods in successivephases of wear and tear as independent and qualitatively differentiatedcommodities, turns out to be inconsistent on theoretical grounds. Moreo-ver, it is proven that the treatment of Fixed Capital in terms of simple pro-duction ("depreciation by evaporation", "exponential depreciation","radioactive decay") is completely general, by contrast to the dominantopinion.

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