>I really have a hard time making sense of Blackburn's numbers and >how he arrive at them, from what is cited below. Yes, he is arguing against Bairoch. The numbers--simply put--indicate that the amount of money invested in fixed capital in Great Britain in 1770 was equal to the profits taken from the colonies. Louis Proyect (http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)
