----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Nilsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 10:51 AM Subject: [PEN-L:26603] RE: Estimating Surplus
> Ian wrote, > > Households are suppliers/producers of labor power, no? > > Yes, but this does not mean that your economic theory must underline (or > start with) the role of "households." ============== Never meant to suggest that it should. There aren't any 'musts' in any economic theories I've perused over the years. > My starting point for understanding economic behavior in capitalism is the > process of surplus generation within the firm, the use of this surplus, the > economic/social/cultural/political consequences of the generation (and > various uses) of the surplus, and the role of coercion and consent in the > extraction of the surplus. ============== Ok; but that's a choice and one way among many.....I'm all for that choice btw. > > One can certainly start with suppliers of various inputs (labor power and > other stuff) to generate a theory of the economy--this is neoclassical > economics--but the sorts of issues that you find natural to discuss within > the resulting framework are not really that interesting to me. > > Eric ================= Well ignoring *the household* and it's changes under capitalism is a big mistake imo.
