[OPE-L:3348] Re: TSS and Tech Change

Paul Cockshott (wpc@cs.strath.ac.uk)
Fri, 11 Oct 1996 01:06:10 -0700 (PDT)

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> John:
>3. TSS opens up the possibility that you can have capital
>augmenting technical change (see above) and a FRP. Using
>other approaches to the concept of value, this is impossible.

Paul:
This is not the case at all.

The method of determining values by recursive application of current
production functions has nothing to do with the possibility or impossibility
of a rising organic composition of capital. The latter is ensured whenever the
rate of accumulation exceeds the rate of growth of the labour force. A rise
in organic composition implies, perforce, a technical change in production.
Paul Cockshott

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