From: Rakesh Bhandari (bhandari@BERKELEY.EDU)
Date: Wed Jul 04 2007 - 13:52:58 EDT
Just to emphasize. The question of double divergence is not scholastic. Consider Varian's accounting of value added in commodity chains. Let's say that intermediate inputs are purchased at prices systematically below value. Then what appears to be value added by mental or design or creative labor farther down the value chain could in part result from the value transferred from the consumed means of production. But this would be an impossibility in single system accounting. Rakesh
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