Re: [OPE] Labour productivity

From: Alejandro Valle Baeza (valle@servidor.unam.mx)
Date: Thu Jun 05 2008 - 10:17:21 EDT

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GERALD LEVY escribió:

> One of the great mysteries of modern society is that while there is an obsession about productivity, it is perpetually controversial just how one

> ought to define it.

Hi Jurriaan:

Measuring productivity is controversial, yes. But, it's no mystery why it's an

"obsession" of individual capitalists since it relates (however you wish to

measure it) to "the bottom line". It is no more (and, actually, less) a mystery

than saying that capitalists are obsessed with the desire to increase the production

of surplus value (even if there are measurement issues there too). The general

problem here, I think, is how 'indicators should be measured which have somewhat

different meaning on the plant or firm level vs. the aggregate level since there are

issues associated with rent and the distribution of surplus value among capitalists.

In solidarity, Jerry

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Jurrian and Jerry, in the same vein that Jeery's opinions I find Weeks, J. Capital and Exploitation. Princeton University Press, Princeton N.J. USA, 1981. chaps. 1 y 2.
Week's interpretation of law of value pointed out capitalist tendencies to increase and to uniforming productivity.
Cordialmente
Alejandro

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