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The Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson Model And The Cambridge Capital Controversies, Naoki Yoshihara, Kazuhiro Kurose
The Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson Model And The Cambridge Capital Controversies, Naoki Yoshihara, Kazuhiro Kurose
Economics Department Working Paper Series
This paper examines the validity of the factor price equalisation theorem (FPET) in relation to capital theory. Additionally, it presents a survey of the literature on Heckscher–Ohlin–Samuelson (HOS) models that treat capital as a primary factor, beginning with Samuelson (1953). Furthermore, this paper discusses the Cambridge capital controversy, which contends that marginal productivity theory does not hold when capital is assumed to be as a bundle of reproducible commodities instead of as a primary factor. Consequently, it is shown that under this assumption, the FPET does not hold, even when there is no reversal of capital intensity. This paper also …