Re: [OPE-L] Truncating Marx's "Capital"

From: Michael Perelman (michael@ECST.CSUCHICO.EDU)
Date: Thu Aug 30 2007 - 23:00:48 EDT


The punchline is that the value remaining in capital goods that have already gone
through a production cycle is indeterminate, especially because of changes in
reproduction costs of the capital.  As a result, one cannot know how much value will
be transferred to the final product from the constant capital because of this
indeterminacy.

I discussed this with Andrew when he was a student assistant at RRPE, but he was
very young at the time and I'm not sure how much of my thinking registered with him.



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