From: gerald_a_levy (gerald_a_levy@MSN.COM)
Date: Fri Oct 24 2003 - 17:29:27 EDT
Paul C wrote: > There might be problems with this as not all the activities > listed in gdp would be productive labour that would > continue under socialism. > On the other hand, the labour could in principle be > transfered to other activities without changing the > magnitude of GDP greatly, so you would not be > far out. Right, that was what I was thinking as well. (btw, how would 'productive labor' be defined under socialism?) Anyway, here are a couple of estimates: An estimate of world GDP per capita for 2001 was US $7200 (http://www.worldfactsandfigures.com/gdp_country_asc.php ) An estimate of world income per capita for 1995 (in 1987 US$) was $3,535 (http://www.geocities.com/combusem/WORLDGDP.HTM Not a heck of a lot of income/capita when looked at on a global basis. Seems quite a long way from 'abundance'. In any event, what would be mechanisms in which global inequality could be purposely reduced among socialist nations? Would 'unequal exchange' be required? In solidarity, Jerry
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