From: Riccardo Bellofiore (bellofio@cisi.unito.it)
Date: Thu Oct 10 2002 - 06:48:17 EDT
At 17:09 -0300 9-10-2002, Francisco Paulo Cipolla wrote: >Jerry, the inner need to product differentiation is developed by Marx in the >Grundrisse: it comes out of the process of increasing productivity which tends >to saturate social need (=demand at market value). It is posed as the conflict >between the endless expansion of value by capital versus limited capacity to >absorb use value on the part of humans. >Unfortunately I donīt have any more time now but I am very interested in this >topic. >Paulo > I think is where Marx talks of "superfluous time". there was a good discussion on this in the late 70s or early 80s by Postone and Reinecke, if I remember well ((Social Research?). rb -- Riccardo Bellofiore Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche Via dei Caniana 2 I-24127 Bergamo, Italy e-mail: bellofio@unibg.it, bellofio@cisi.unito.it direct +39-035-2052545 secretary +39-035 2052501 fax: +39 035 2052549 homepage: http://www.unibg.it/dse/homebellofiore.htm
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