Re: [OPE] debates on whether value existed in pre-capitalist society

From: Paul Cockshott <wpc@dcs.gla.ac.uk>
Date: Tue Aug 31 2010 - 18:06:50 EDT

Who was the arab thinker of the middle ages who invented the labour theory of value?
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From: ope-bounces@lists.csuchico.edu [ope-bounces@lists.csuchico.edu] On Behalf Of Dave Zachariah [davez@kth.se]
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Subject: Re: [OPE] debates on whether value existed in pre-capitalist society

  On 2010-08-31 17:32, Paul Cockshott wrote:
> I seem to recall this having been debated extensively in the past with Jurriaan and I taking the position that it did and various others taking a different view.
> Can anyone remember when these debates were in the archive, and who argued that value was something specifically capitalist?

I recall we had some discussions along those lines last year, where
Jerry was advocating a 'value-form' position. For instance the thread
'value-form theory redux':

    http://ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu/~cottrell/ope/archive/0903/author.html

//Dave Z
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