Re: Reply to Ellen Meiksins Wood, part 1

[Michael Perelman]

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 02:28:27PM -0700, Jim Devine wrote:
> 
> 3. If it's really easy to set up one's own farm, as for awhile in the 19th 
> century in the US, then workers won't put up with proletarianization (so 
> that in-migration needs to be encouraged).  Etc.

Danhof, Clarence. 1941. "Farm Making Costs and the 'Safety Valve.'"
Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 49, No. 3 (June): pp. 217-59 emphasized
that the farm making costs were high. 

> We've gone through this before. Perhaps Michael will tell us not to 
> continue the current thread.

Are people seeing anything new here?  I don't think that I have.

> Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine "Segui il 
> tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) 
> -- K. Marx, paraphrasing Dante A.
> 

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Michael Perelman
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