From: michael a. lebowitz (mlebowit@SFU.CA)
Date: Fri May 21 2004 - 17:28:07 EDT
At 17:21 20/05/2004, Paul Bullock wrote:
> What are you wanting to measure and why? Whilst Marx showed that the
> movement and dimensions of particular economic phenomena were indeed
> regulated by the basic law of value (which Ricardo could not), that
> regulation is still a process that leaves room for maneouvre by all
> interests. I am wary of trying to count items when they are constantly
> being expanded, reduced, re devised and so on all the time. The best we
> can do is generate broad categories, which various authors have tried to
> do.( If they left food preparation out of their calculations as capital
> moved into the field, then they made a mistake and should reflect on why)
> This will give us a decent enough illustration of general trends.
Paul, once again we agree. (This is frightening!) I don't want to measure
anything myself. But there are people on the list who do engage in
measurement (eg., Paul C., Allin, Fred M and I'm sure there are others as
well). Do they include the Macworkers as productive of surplus value?
in solidarity,
michael
Michael A. Lebowitz
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