I think some of my asides have led to my misleading Andrew K. So here's a
corrective:
Andrew:
> I don't know why you think I'm exasperated. I don't think I am.
Michael W:
I'm glad to hear it - nothing more intimidating than an exasperated
American ... .
> Andrew K
> You are using "single-system" here in a different sense than Ted and I
(for
> instance) have. One difference is that, as we have used it, the single
vs.
> two system distinction doesn't refer to money vs. labor-time.
Bortkiewicz
> measured both values and prices in money, but definitely had two separate
> systems of price and value equations instead of Marx's one. The
> misinterpretation of value as labor-time and price as money is a
derivative
> and later error.
Thanks, that clears something up for me.
> Andrew K:
> Second, we mean by "single-system" something different from "They are
> constitutive moments of the same, single, system." "Constitutive
moments"
> carries ontological and structuralist connotations we do not intend.
OK. For what it is worth, my value-form approach is more analogous (but
only analogous) to a systems theoretic rather than a structuralist
approach. It has antecedents in the Frankfurt School->Habermas->Offe,
rather than in any variant of structuralism (including the Althusserian
one).
Ho hum
Michael
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