From: Rakesh Bhandari (bhandari@BERKELEY.EDU)
Date: Wed Apr 27 2005 - 13:57:24 EDT
There is an argument for how under market pressure the output of the gold sector should vary to meet the needs of circulation in Thomas Sekine's Outline of the Dialectic of Capital. I don't think there is an attempt to see whether the output of the gold sector did actually play such an equilibriating role. Yours, Rakesh At 1:20 PM -0400 4/27/05, glevy@PRATT.EDU wrote: > > But why must an initial explanation of the >> production of surplus-value necessarily include an account of >> mechanisms that expand the money supply? > >Hi Ian: > >I think Paul C's point is that it is already implied in the >formula M - C - M'. In a sense, I think he is right. I.e. >in the formula M - C - M', and indeed in the theory of the >money-form, there is an unexplored and necessary >presupposition -- namely, the role of the state in (co-) >determining the quantity of money in circulation. Paul C's >way of addressing this issue is to suggest a state theory >of money. Another way of theorizing the issue is to >recognize that a more concrete level of abstraction than >that examined in _Capital_ the role of the state in the >determination of the money supply has to be recognized >and systematically explained. In other words, it's Book 4 >stuff. But, before you can get to Book 4, don't you have to >examine the subject of classes (i.e. the topics of Books 2 >and 3)? > >In solidarity, Jerry
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