From: ajit sinha (sinha_a99@YAHOO.COM)
Date: Wed Jun 02 2004 - 08:42:56 EDT
--- Rakesh Bhandari <rakeshb@STANFORD.EDU> wrote: > At 5:56 AM -0700 6/1/04, ajit sinha wrote: > >--- Rakesh Bhandari <rakeshb@STANFORD.EDU> wrote: > >> At 3:12 AM -0700 6/1/04, ajit sinha wrote: > >> >Rakesh, I have no idea what is this about. Can > we > >> >stick to the issues we are debating? Cheers, > ajit > >> >sinha > >> > >> Out of his debate with Malthus Ricardo was led > to > >> search for an > >> invariable measure of value, no? Sraffa claimed > to > >> have devised just > >> that in the standard commodity, no? So why did > >> Malthus prompt Ricardo > >> to search for an invariable measure of value? > >> Why--or on what exact > >> assumptions--can (as you put it in the Westra > and > >> Zuege volume) "the > >> effect on the money commodity of a change in > wages > >> imply that even if > >> the net output has been kept constant in > physical > >> terms a change in > >> its distribution between wages and profits could > >> very well change its > >> size when measured in... money terms"? > >> > >> Rakesh > >______________ > >As I said, "money commodity". But this is not the > >issue we are discussing here. Let's keep to the > issue. > >Cheers, ajit sinha > > Ajit, this won't do. _________________ Yes, Rakesh! It will have to do. To be very frank with you, most of the stuff you write on very basic issues is incoherent. Political economy is not your area of specialization is clear as day light to all. This is not to say that you should not debate such issues, but please don't pretend to be all knowing on these subjects. Right now I neither have time nor inclination to debate you on complicated issues regarding Malthus, Ricardo, Sraffa and the problem of 'invariable measure of value'. So please stick to Marx and his concept of value. And I would appreciate if you gave me straightforward answers to straightforward questions. I'm not interested in learning what a great champion of Marxism you are and how anti-Marxist we all are. That is not the issue. What I want to expose to you, for your own good, is that your understanding of Marx's concept of value is incoherent. The sooner you realize this the better it will be for whatever intellectual endeavor you are using it for. Cheers, ajit sinha __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/
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