----- Original Message ----- From: "Marvin Gandall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Well, the Jews and the Scots have also been prominently mentioned. :) I'm still looking to meet the capitalist - of any nationality - who doesn't want to get the best possible price for his or her product, or the worker who doesn't want to get the same for his or her labour. MG ----- Due to interminable miseducation/study of philosophy, I'm having a bit of trouble, also based on working with lots of members of the working class, with what you mean by *best*. I've seen thousands of co-workers sit quietly for years while their real wage eroded and tremble at the thought of organizing into a union. I've seen corporate managers *cut* profit margins to the bone vis a vis customers when they clearly had the upper hand in bargaining and could come up with no reasonable justification on static or dynamic grounds for doing so. I think we might have to take a bit more seriously Herbert Simon's notions of satisficing and bounded rationality and do some comparative empirical work across cultures on price bargaining.
