From: Ian Wright (ian_paul_wright@HOTMAIL.COM)
Date: Mon Jan 05 2004 - 17:27:12 EST
I think you may both be misunderstanding the meaning of the original paper. It relates to the Pareto distribution of incomes (sometimes called a power-law distribution), which is an empirical fact, but it has nothing to do with the concept of Pareto optimality. >Hi Phil. I'm still not quite sure what you are trying to get >at, but I quite agree that he (Marx) didn't 'arrive at' Pareto's >concept of optimality. This is not to suggest that Marx would >necessarily reject optimization methods for _all_ subjects; >rather, I think that he understood capitalism as a subject >in which optimality played no central role in that system's dynamics. _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail
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