Re: [OPE-L] basics vs. non-basics

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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