Date: Sat, 26 Feb 94 01:38:31 -0500
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: "Victor Kasper Jr." [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Organization: Elmira College
Subject: Re: more on M - M' (was Marx on interest
In Response to Gil, I have some different readings of Marx and Palgrave:
DATE: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 20:05:56 -0500
This is indeed an important question. You could say that it's done through
the mysticism of brand identity, which price-cutting would undermine. But
what about more commodified industrial goods like cars and appliances. Why
is the cost-cutting from production in Mexico not translating into lower
Jim, have you ever uploaded this piece.
Cheers,
Victor
DATE: Mon, 18 Oct 1993 08:05:30 PST
FROM: Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For the most part, economics *is* boring, scary, and irrelevant.
Unfortunately a lot of radical economists are
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 94 01:38:31 -0500
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: "Victor Kasper Jr." [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Organization: Elmira College
Subject: Re: more on M - M' (was Marx on interest
In Response to Gil, I have some different readings of Marx and Palgrave:
DATE: Fri, 25 Feb 1994 20:05:56 -0500
This is indeed an important question. You could say that it's done through
the mysticism of brand identity, which price-cutting would undermine. But
what about more commodified industrial goods like cars and appliances. Why
is the cost-cutting from production in Mexico not translating into lower
One addendum on usury: Marx saw that, even thought it was just M-M', usury
could be progressive since it forced producers to increase their surplus.
I can dig up citations if anyone is interested.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel.
It's time to see how far the Fed can be pushed. Build up
some liquidity. Maybe spread some rumors of imminent Fed
action and sell short on the "inside information." But
Greenspan insists he's not intimidated because "wages
do not seem to be accelerating despite scattered reports
of some
After defending Marxian state theory, I want to criticize it (or
at least the version of it that I summarized). That theory leaes
leaves out the patriarchal and racist dimensions of most actually-
existing states. Even when women or racial minorities rise to the
top. I don't think this
