From: Fred Moseley (fmoseley@MTHOLYOKE.EDU)
Date: Sat Feb 11 2006 - 10:16:40 EST
Hi Paul, thank for your message of last Monday, which I seem to have deleted by mistake. You said: "I agree that the Sraffian theory oversimplifies in this area [the "harvest" method]. However, one could recast all of it in terms of rates of flow but it is not clear that this would invalidate the result that prices of production could be deduced independently of recourse to labor values." I don't deny that in Sraffian theory prices of production can be deduced independently of labor values. Rather, I argue that this conclusion has nothing to do with Marx's theory, because Marx's theory is based on an entirely different logical method, and it follows from Marx's logical method that prices of production cannot be deduced independently of values. Paul, would you please send me references of Sraffian works that reject Sraffa's "harvest" method and reformulate the theory in terms of unequal turnover times and exchanges at different points in time. I don't see how these points could be made consistent with the reproduction of the same physical quantities, period after period. Thanks very much. Comradely, Fred
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