From: Gerald_A_Levy@MSN.COM
Date: Wed Sep 21 2005 - 09:12:49 EDT
[Paul C wrote:] > What you have then is a famine, and the reproduction of the > population is seriously in question. A large part will die off > in the absence of relief supplies comming in. Prices are > then driven by speculation rather than costs of production and > the theory of value ceases to to have any relevance to describing > what happens. [Phil wrote:] Ex-post value accounting can still be done in these circumstances, whatever happens to prices. Simultaneous valuation theories, of course, breakdown. Phil: All theories which, through the assumption of the conservation of value, allow no role for the destruction of value, breakdown. In solidariuty, Jerry
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