re 4059 Fred, Your first mistake was parsing and responding to my comments, instead of Grossman's. I am not so interested in what you think of my ideas at this point! > >As I understand the Grossman passage quoted below (which I found >interesting), it does NOT say that the value of gold is UNOBSERVABLE. It >only says that Marx assumed the value of gold REMAINS CONSTANT (since a >change in the value of gold does not affect any of the main conclusions of >the theory, as I have argued in recent posts). I agree with this >completely. Even though m is unobservable, Marx took m as given AND >assumed it to remain constant. Again, there is no contradiction here. And I agree completely with this. > >P.S. Rakesh, did Grossman discuss the determination of the value of gold >with prices of production? Good question. But I think this is in the context of the gold sector as a source of additional purchasing power given the problem an unsaleable surplus arising in dept II, not the transformation problem per se. Let me look into his piece on gold production and Luxemburg from the early 30s. Yours, Rakesh
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