Regarding your first point, authors according to Biernacki, were paid by the page. Goethe was upset that he was paid identically with the creator of some trash. The only way to win an economic advantage was to produce more pages per hour. Perhaps, this can lead to the creation of Internet communication.
"Devine, James" wrote: > I was going to say something similar, but held off, since Michael doesn't seem to > like discussions of Marxian value theory. Note that "number of pages produced" isn't > a very good measure of labor performed, because it doesn't measure the expenditure > of brains & brawn (labor-power) well. Among other things, it misses the quality > dimension. (And my student know how to produce a "5 page paper" by changing the > margins or the font size!) -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University michael at ecst.csuchico.edu Chico, CA 95929 530-898-5321 fax 530-898-5901
