Switches and fake switches in methods of production
回到斯拉法本人的方法,识别出两个特征要素:方法论上的动态性质(考虑利润率的潜在变动)和分析上的转换点是多条工资-利润曲线的共同交点。内部批判揭示了虚假转换点的存在,即两条工资-利润曲线的交点并非真正的转换点。
It has long been recognised that Sraffa's analysis of the choice of methods in joint production cannot be sustained, so that post-Sraffian economists have abandoned it. The paper returns to Sraffa's own approach and identifies two characteristic elements: methodologically, it is of a ‘dynamic’ nature (it considers a potential move of the rate of profits) and, analytically, the switch-points are the common intersection of several wage–profit curves. An internal critique consists in showing the existence of fake switches, which are at the intersection of two wage–profit curves but, unexpectedly, are not switch-points.