Does the argument between TSS and its opponents come down to the question of the methodology of comparative statics? Allin, Ajit and others have defended its use, and argued that Marx himself employed this method. But this strikes me as untrue even though I have attempted a static solution to the transformation problem which I claim maintains both equalities though Allin thinks I do so by definitional trick. At any rate, comparative statics suffers from at least the following well known defects: 1. it exogenizes technology and other sources of change. 2. it neglects transitional processes. 3. it eshews a real causal theory of the developmental consequences of capital accumulation; in short it seems ill suited as a method to lay bare the laws of motion. All the best, Rakesh
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