It is a very useful text, undermining the value form theorists since in this Marx is very explicit about labour being the source of value and that prices do oscillate around values. ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of zarembka [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 8:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Pen-l] "Value, Price, and Profit" -- abridged
Mike, Yes, you are correct, but it makes the reading difficult. By the way, I went to very first published edition of this work in 1898, one of the very few written by Marx in English, not German. Paul C., We are referring to www.buffalo.edu/~zarembka/Marx.htm<http://www.buffalo.edu/~zarembka/Marx.htm> VALUE, PRICE, AND PROFIT (Abridged): An Introduction to the Theory of Capitalism, by Karl Marx (1865), Edited by his daughter Eleanor Marx Aveling, abridged by Paul Zarembka<mailto:[email protected]> Paul Z. Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 08:13:15 +0800 From: Mike Ballard <[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Pen-l] "Value, Price, and Profit" -- abridged To: pen-l <[email protected]><mailto:[email protected]> Message-ID: <CANG3rD1=K1-uNKg2ZH3+-w36+_DFLnLT0mzwk_tbGW=czt8...@mail.gmail.com><mailto:CANG3rD1=K1-uNKg2ZH3+-w36+_DFLnLT0mzwk_tbGW=czt8...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Thanks for your work and the link, Paul. I've bookmarked it. I hear Weston's arguments being made to this day, especially the one about higher wages causing higher prices. Sincerely, Mike -- ==== Research in Political Economy<http://www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?issn=0161-7230> (since 1977) | Editor's webpage<http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/%7Ezarembka> Contradictions: Finance, Greed, and Labor Unequally Paid (2013) Revitalizing Marxist Theory for Today's Capitalism (2011), with R.Desai The National Question and the Question of Crisis (2010) The Hidden History of 9-11<http://catalog.sevenstories.com/products/hidden-history-of-911> (2nd ed., Seven Stories Press) _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
