Talk:Subsistence theory of wages

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It's been a month, so I'm merging the articles now. 72.66.123.16 05:44, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Remove tag

Now that you've marged the articles, should you not remove the tag suggesting the articles be merged? Gladmax 12:29, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Apparently the merger was done a while ago, but the proposer did not remove the tag, and since he/she used the wrong merger tag (the one here should have been {{mergefrom}}) it was hard to tell from the history exactly what transpired, but I think it's fixed at this point, and I removed the tag. --MCB 20:30, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Attribution to Ferdinand Lassalle

I see that it says that David Ricardo's "attribution is disputed," but I do not see that anywhere elsewhere. My instincts are to usually to trust Wikipedia, but my textbooks seem to imply that Ricardo alone proposed the theory, which would be a pretty significant difference from the text here, which implies that he merely added to Lassalle's work (and even different significantly from it). I can find seldom few Google hits about both Ferdinand Lassalle and the Iron Law of Wages outside of Wikipedia mirror sites, and those that do seem to mention that Lassalle based his work on "the Iron Law of Wages formulated by Ricardo" or something to that effect. Also, the wiki on Ferdinand Lassalle does not even mention "wages," much less this naming and popularization. If this is true (which it certainly could be, as I know little about this), there should be an explanation as to why there are so few other sites that make the connection. Any evidence should be cited and the nature of this "dispute" should be clarified, so that future readers find the content here consistent with writings elsewhere. 71.176.195.172 08:15, 22 January 2007 (UTC)