Ricardo

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mainly refers to Ricardo as the classical economist from whom Marx inherits. In his view, Marx owes him the distinction between use value and exchange value, but Ricardo does not show what is at stake in it1. He credits him with understanding that labour time is the key to value and with seeing what all commodities have in common, without going as far as surplus value23. For him, Ricardo thus marks the limit of classical political economy, which Marx goes beyond. Elsewhere he mentions him more briefly among the classical economists, in a session on Hegel4 and in a reflection on whether sciences of history are possible5. He also places him among the economists who invoke a natural order, in connection with the question of a balance in nature6. Overall, the passages always place him in relation to Marx or as the representative of a school: he is not read closely.

1. 1Que faire ? 1/329 Jan 2016 · 26:12
2. 2Marx Plage 2/21 Feb 2016 · 20:13
3. 3Marx Plage 2/21 Feb 2016 · 36:38
4. 4Hegel Plage 4/52 Feb 2016 · 32:35
5. 59 #14 Comment des sciences de l'histoire peuvent-elles être réelles?5 Feb 2021 · 51:19
6. 6Un équilibre dans la nature ? • Q&A Philosophique • Dominique Pagani31 Mar 2021 · 30:58

Summary produced automatically from 6 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.