Uploaded July 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Boyd's paper: aethermachines.com/DESTRUCTION_AND_CREATION.pdf
Ian Wright's solution: http://gesd.free.fr/wright13b.pdf
Kliman's solution: http://gesd.free.fr/kliglo99.pdf
Farjoun and Machover's solution: versobooks.com/books/3068-laws-of-chaos
Desmos App: desmos.com/calculator/7bs8vyjpz1
A video by Ian Wright summarizing the history of the transformation problem: youtube.com/watch?v=agIWGvXD3hU&t=458s&ab_channel=IanWright

00:00 Introduction
00:59 The problem
09:49 The idea of an equilibrium rate of profit
17:44 Profit and the surplus product
21:54 Equalization through competition
29:22 Equalization(?) through struggle
40:24 Drawing a picture
46:26 The transformation process
49:24 Ideological blinders
59:15 Marx's solution
1:07:48 Dialectical materialism and toy models
1:14:41 The problem(?) with the solution to the problem(?)
1:22:13 Evaluating the problem in Desmos
1:25:18 The heart of the problem
1:28:11 The 'fundamental Marxian theorem'
1:30:00 Confirming earlier results are unaffected by the problem
1:33:37 Evaluating the accuracy of Marx's solution
1:42:34 The system when reinvesting money rather than surplus value
1:50:00 The dazzling money form
2:00:02 The incompleteness theorems and dialectical materialism
2:12:41 The incompleteness theorems and the transformation controversy
2:18:54 My conclusion about the transformation problem