From: Ian Hunt (ian.hunt@FLINDERS.EDU.AU)
Date: Thu Sep 06 2007 - 19:43:40 EDT
Bertram Schefold ("Fixed Capital as a Joint Product," Jahrbucher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 192 (1977) has a Sraffa style model with unequal turnover periods of capital. So Fred's comment seems plainly wrong, Cheers, Ian >--- Fred Moseley <fmoseley@MTHOLYOKE.EDU> wrote: > >> And let’s not forget that the Sraffian method of >> simultaneous >> determination of input prices and output prices from >> given physical >> quantities is not really a viable theoretical >> alternative. Because it >> is based on the completely unrealistic assumption >> that all industries >> have the same turnover period. This is not a >> simplifying assumption, >> that could be relaxed at a later state of the >> theory, but is instead a >> necessary essential assumption that could not be >> relaxed, without which >> the theory doesn’t work. >_________________________________ >So Fred, Sraffa had never read Ricardo and Torrense? >Or you have never read Ricardo? I leave aside your >peculier interpretation of Marx's prices of >production, because no matter how many times I show >your elementary mistakes you are never going to >acknowledge it. Cheers, ajit sinha > > > > > > > >____________________________________________________________________________________ >Park yourself in front of a world of choices in >alternative vehicles. Visit the Yahoo! Auto >Green Center. >http://autos.yahoo.com/green_center/ -- Associate Professor Ian Hunt, Dept of Philosophy, School of Humanities, Director, Centre for Applied Philosophy, Flinders University of SA, Humanities Building, Bedford Park, SA, 5042, Ph: (08) 8201 2054 Fax: (08) 8201 2784
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