The measurement of labour content: An axiomatic approach
本文针对异质劳动的一般技术，提出一个公理化框架来定义和测量商品束中的劳动含量，并刻画了不同文献中主要劳动含量测度的共同公理基础。
This paper analyses the theoretical issues related to the measurement of the amount of labour used in the production of – or contained in – a bundle of goods for general technologies with heterogeneous labour. A novel axiomatic framework is used in order to formulate the key properties of the notion of labour content and analyse its theoretical foundations. The main measures of labour content used in various strands of the literature are then characterised. Quite surprisingly, a unique axiomatic structure can be identified which underlies measures of labour aggregates used in such diverse fields as neoclassical growth theory, input-output approaches, productivity analysis, and classical political economy.