Re: [OPE] Brad DeLong, 'Understanding Marx"

> I will stick to the critique of use value thinking, for the moment.
> A capitalist buys a machine, uses it for several years, the scraps it.
> How to theorise this?
> The use-value, the machine is unchanged for those years.

Hi Phil:

Does it? Well, I guess it can as a simplifying assumption. Is that
what you meant?

> Therefore value per unit of use-value is a variable quantity.

Actually, I think it's more likely that the "value per unit of use-
value" of "George" depreciates at a variable *rate*.

In any event, what is a "unit of use-value". You're not assuming
"utils" are you?

In solidarity, Jerry

> Simple stuff.

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Received on Fri Apr 24 21:51:33 2009