Pre-liberate people also accumulated knowledge, which resided in the
community as a whole or in a sub-community. I think that a lot of the
discussion about knowledge is shaped by the idea of knowledge as a
commodity.
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 09:20:38AM +0000, Paul Cockshott wrote:
> Knowledge, we must remember, is not something imaterial,
> it is not 'ideas'. It is always embodied in a material carrier : books,
> records, or the far more perishable human brain. These
> embodyments do wear out, just like other means of production.
> Labour must be expended to maintain them, and in the absence
> of this maintainance it is lost.
>
-- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ ope mailing list ope@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/opeReceived on Fri Nov 13 16:41:46 2009
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