From: Tony Tinker (TonyTinker@msn.com)
Date: Tue Nov 05 2002 - 10:03:13 EST
Some additional comments for Jerry (in blue). Jerry now responds: Granted. What I meant to suggest is that accurately describing the real changes in the exchange value of means of production following technological change is a more *basic* theoretical issue than what accounting method is chosen by firms to estimate these changes. Thus, one method might be better for auditing purposes while another method might embody a better description of the underlying economic processes. In solidarity, Jerry I guess you are not going to let me get away with hints, so now I'll declare my epistemic colors. If one subscribes to the view that all science is political (centering on the kind of social reality we seek to effect) then I don't see much place for an objectivist episteme, that purports to document "real" changes and "better" descriptions of the underlying economic processes. The test of an accounting or economic measure is not some dubious "accuracy", but the kind of life we engender. The assertion that one captures a "real" picture of phenomenon (one that is not socially constructed) is derivative of a representational philosophy that I don't subscribe to -- either for accounting, or for Marxism. Fraternally, TT
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