The Law of Value and the Actual Mechanisms of Capial Accumulation

1. 20世纪70年代以来，西方学术界对价值理论和资本积累理论的争论一直很激烈。这些争论与西方马克思主义经济学的复兴和资本积累在当代的现实困难有关。本研究希望能从日本宇野理论的观点，对当代有争议的价值论与积累论问题有所贡献。这些成果将以英文出版。在价值论方面，区分价值的形式与实质，对于解决转化问题、熟练劳动问题和联合产品问题等理论上的困惑具有重要意义。同时，对价值规律的内容也有了新的认识，如人的劳动能力的基本平等性、剩余劳动在再生产过程中的基本灵活性等。这些理论上的见解，加上对转换问题的肯定解答，将深化对价值规律的一般理解。价值规律的作用，实际上是通过资本积累的动态过程，以经济周期的形式表现出来的。本文以资本积累的逻辑过程所产生的资本主义人口规律为基础，通过考察价值规律在经济周期不同阶段的不同作用特点，提出了一个关于经济周期和经济危机的超额资本理论。然后，讨论了商业周期的变化和长波理论，并考虑到它们与当代大萧条的相关性。

1. In the Western academia, there has been fervent controversies on the theories of value and capital accumulation since 1970s. The controversies are related to the revival of the Western Marxian Economics and the actual difficulties of capital accumulation in our age. This research internded to contribute to the contemporary controversial issues on the theories of value and accumulation from the view of Japanese Uno theories. The achievements are going to be published in English.2. As for the value theory, distinction between the forms and the substance of value turned out quite important in solving the theoretical confusions in the transformation problem, and the issues on skilled labour and joint-products. At the same time, the research showed some new insights into the contents of the law of value, such as the fundamental equality of human ability to work, and the basic flexibility in surplus-labour in the process of reproduction. Together with a positive solution of the transformation problem, these theroretical insights would deepen the general understanding of the law of value.3. The working of the law of value actually appears through the dynamic process of capital accumulation in the form of business cycles. Upon the basis of the capitalist law of population resulting from the logical process of capital accumulation, an excess capital theory of regular business cycles and crises is presented in this research, by examining the different features of the working of the law of value in different phases of business cycles. Then, the metamorphoses of business cycles and the long wave theories were argued, considering their relevancy to the contemporary great depression.