----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Nilsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 10:21 AM Subject: [PEN-L:26600] RE: Re: Re: Re: RE: Re: RE: RE: Estimating Surplus
> Doug wrote, > > > > I was just citing the convention of the NIPAs. Conceptually, the > > people who make up households have to be the producers and recipients > > of everything, since corps are just legal fictions, no? > > It is a fiction that corporations are "quasi-persons." Regardless of that, > corporations are the major sites of surplus generation and decision-making > for what is to be done with the surplus in modern capitalist economies. I > wonder the extent to which the assertion that households have to be > producers/recipients is due to the requirements of methodological > individualism. > > eric ============== Households are suppliers/producers of labor power, no? Ian
