On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, you wrote: > > RE Paul B's [OPE-L:4953]: > > > What war are you studying? > > If it will help you to focus on the issues I have raised, let's take the case of WWII. > > Consider, for example, the bombing of Hiroshima. Suppose that aggregate global value before the bombing equaled X. > After the bomb has dropped, is there a "conservation of value" (value = X) or has the quantity of value in the world been diminished (less than X)? > The anwer seems patently obvious. Of course value has been destroyed. Labour had to be expended to rebuilt the town -- Paul Cockshott, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland 0141 330 3125 mobile:07946 476966 paul@cockshott.com http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/people/personal/wpc/ http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~wpc/reports/index.html
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