The Labor Theory of Value is absurd and impossible

[ziragt]

@fakename

As for the methods issue, I think that they did mix methodologies but I would say that weren’t consciously doing this as a methodological principle but, as a person tends to do when confronted with a new field of inquiry, they tended to apply any and all principles to economics just for the sake of getting useable answers.

I wouldn’t quite say that. It’s not that they were inconsistent, it’s that they examined the world very differently than we do. Some ideas of theirs might seem ad hoc, but I would argue that they were in fact plausible and coherent, when interpreted as part of an overall system.