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十分激烈。这些争论与西方马克思主义经济学的复兴和我们这个时代资本积累的现实困境有关。本研究旨在从日本元野理论的视角，对当代价值与积累理论的争议性问题做出贡献。这些成果将以英文出版。就价值论而言，区分价值的形式与实质，对于解决转型问题、技术劳动问题和联合产品问题的理论困惑具有十分重要的意义。同时，对人类劳动能力的基本平等、剩余劳动在再生产过程中的基本灵活性等价值规律的内容也有了新的认识。这些理论见解与对转型问题的积极解决相结合，将加深对价值规律的一般认识。价值规律的作用实际上是以经济周期的形式，通过资本积累的动态过程表现出来的。本文以资本积累逻辑过程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征，提出了一种规律经济周期和危机的过剩资本理论。然后，讨论了商业周期的变形和长波理论，并考虑了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.