From: Jerry Levy (Gerald_A_Levy@MSN.COM)
Date: Wed Feb 28 2007 - 08:35:34 EST
> It is strange that Solow would focus on this trivial point. I wonder > if Solow brought this up, or was responding to someone else's comment > about equal rates of surplus-value? Fred: To begin with, Solow's comment wasn't made in relation to Marx or the TP, it was a comment about the logic of the Sraffian system and the relation of that logic to real economic processes. As far as I can remember, to answer your question, he brought up this issue. While his comment obviously reflected a far different methodology (and perhaps a misunderstanding of Sraffa) it was not trivial. Without knowing where he wanted to go with his comment, let me suggest a possible direction. Instead of taking for granted a positive and uniform rate of surplus, assume instead an array of rates that vary by industry and can be positive or negative. One might then argue (as he hinted at) that some workers are exploited and some aren't. In solidarity, Jerry
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