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The introduction of this notion has generally been regarded by Marxists as a crucial difference between their own and bourgeois economic theory. They have claimed that it allowed Marx to overcome a basic difficulty in Ricardo’s (and, more generally, in classical) theory.
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De Vivo, G. (1990). Labour Power. In: Eatwell, J., Milgate, M., Newman, P. (eds) Marxian Economics. The New Palgrave. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20572-1_34
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