John says (in part)
>What is interesting is that we seem to have encountered a fundamental
>contradiction in the accumulation process in our very simple one-sector
>models. How did we do this? By assuming that money has a constant
>value. ($1/1hr)
I don't think the examples I've seen so far indicate a fundamental
contradiction in the accumulation process. It has been known for a long
time that technical progress devalues existing stocks of capital, and that
there are a variety of ways capitalist economies cope with this
devaluation.
If there isn't any fundamentally new insight here, then I worry that the
belief that there is may divert our attention from more fruitful lines of
inquiry developing Marx's economics and the LTV point of view.
Duncan
Duncan K. Foley
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