An aside. Andrew wrote:
>. Despite what folks
>like Roemer might want us to believe, it is absolutely impossible for markets
>to substitute for this power of capital over labor "at the point of
>production," as Marxists used to say. Even if workers were to contract
>"voluntarily" to do more work than the equivalent they receive in wages, the
>power of the State would be needed to ENFORCE those contracts, and there's
>nothing voluntary about that enforcement from the workers' point of view,
>absolutely nothing.
Despite Andrew's suggestion to the contrary, Roemer would certainly not deny
this.
Gil Skillman