From: Alejandro Valle Baeza (valle@SERVIDOR.UNAM.MX)
Date: Sun Dec 31 2006 - 20:47:10 EST
Paul Cockshott wrote: > I have been having to cite Alexandros work on the importance to taking > productivity into account in the debates on the solidarity program > when related to the world trade organization. Some members line up > with the Oxfam, NGO line of favouring the small producers in Latin > America and attributing their decline to US agricultural subsidies, > ignoring productivity effects. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > From: OPE-L [mailto:OPE-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU] On Behalf Of Alejandro > Valle Baeza > Sent: 25 December 2006 01:33 > To: OPE-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU > Subject: Re: [OPE-L] Unequal Exchange "without recourse to the notion > of 'value'"? > > > > Paul, thank you for this. You are right, I used myself Oxfam's > propositions as examples of good feelings without substance. > Impoverishment of some farmers in poor countries is not caused only > by subsidies to agribusiness but for Law of value at world scale also. > If national productivity is lower than international productivity it > implies that labor spent in such merchandise is not full recognized > and then "undervalued". It is not unequal exchange but normal > operation of capitalism. Oxfam as many other NGO criticized some > defects of capitalism without criticized capitalism itself. > Cordialmente Alejandro -- Posgrado Facultad de Economía Av. Universidad 3000 Circuito interior México 04510, DF México Tel. 55-56222148 fax 55-56222158 Página web: http://usuarios.lycos.es/vallebaeza
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