From: Gil Skillman (gskillman@mail.wesleyan.edu)
Date: Mon Aug 26 2002 - 13:05:36 EDT
(Just back in town--will get to other posts as I can) Paul writes: >The gold industry can not be the key issue here. Assume state fiat >money instead if that is a problem. For what it's worth, I agree. My scenario with commodity money was meant to be the starting point for a purely theoretical point, but it got sidetracked with all this discussion of historical conditions in the gold industry that Marx makes no mention of in K.III. Ch. 9 (which doesn't mean, of course, that he didn't intend to invoke them). I'll address the scenario with fiat money presently. Gil
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