The article considers the idea expressed in due time by domestic economists about the unification of subjective and objective principles in the theory of value. The peculiarity of the Russian variant, in contrast to the West European neoclassical one, was that the unification of the two began on the basis of a classical or political-economic approach in economic science. Domestic authors, in their studies, nevertheless, proceeded from the peculiarities of the ideas prevailing in the Russian school, about the primacy of the social principle in economic research.