The Review of Capital as Power is pleased to announce that Isabella K. Sabatino has won the 2026 CASP Essay Prize for her landmark paper ‘Humbug Labor Values’.1 Sabatino’s paper takes aim at Anwar Shaikh’s method for ‘testing’ the labor theory of value. The backstory behind Sabatino’s work is that in 1974, Shaikh published a […]
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Humbug Labor Values ISABELLA K. SABATINO March 2026 In 1974, Anwar Shaikh published a landmark paper demonstrating that the Cobb-Douglas production function was in fact an accounting identity. As such, under fairly general conditions, the function would appear to ‘work’, even for nonsense data that spelled the word ‘HUMBUG’. In this paper, I argue that […]
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