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022			_a0486-6134
100			_a2024
100			_aGaul, Michael _9120791
245		2	_aA Discussion of Marx's Account of Technical Progress by Means of Wage Curves and Their Historical Evolution
260			_bReview of Radical Political Economics
260			_c2024
300			_a267-299
520			_aMarx's account of technical progress has been criticized by philosophers as being a metanarrative, by ecological economists as being unduly strong, by economists as being unduly weak, and by post-Sraffian authors as being ill-founded. This article discusses Marx's account of technical progress in light of these criticisms on a conceptual, theoretical, and empirical level, relying on the apparatus of wage curves. It argues that some of the critiques cannot be sustained, since the criticized positions cannot be attributed to Marx. The remaining critiques, in turn, amount to alternative predictions on the evolution of wage curves which are, however, and in contrast to those of Marx, not in line with empirical evidence, as the estimation of wage curves for thirteen countries from 2000 to 2013 shows.
650			_a Labor Theory of Value _9120792
650			_a Technical Progress _9765
650			_a Wage Curves _9120793
650			_aKarl Marx _9856
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/04866134231188585
999			_c133787 _d133787