Ive been browsing a book written by a listmember, Alejandro
Valle-Baeza called "Valor y precio: Una forma de regulacion del
trabajo social", UNAM, Mexico, 1991.
Alejandro Valle summarizes an article written by Mandel in 1967,
published in Spanish as "La teoria del valor y el capital
monopolista". In this work, Mandel criticizes Baran-Sweezy thesis
that capitalism development implies an "increasing surplus".
According to Alejandro Valle's summary, Mandel's thesis seems an
important precedent of recent interpretations emphasizing the
determination of value by labor-time vs. the "surplus school".
Perhaps Alejandro Valle himself or someone who had read this article
could further comment on this topic. For example, could Mandel's
article be considered --at least in some aspects-- a clear precedent
of TSS analysis?
Alejandro Ramos M.
27.2.97