Your point is a central theme of my Steal This Idea book that will be coming out in April.
Rakesh Bhandari wrote: > I have not been able to convince any Marxist > whom I know here--is the centrality of US success in monopolizing key > technologies and thereby earning monopoly rents in improving the > American position in the world market (Ernest Mandel however may > jumped on this finding given his interest in surplus profits and > technological rents).-- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]