We arrived 12 days ago on a one month study trip exploring the
political and economic situation in Russia and have been submerged
in this puzzle day and night.
There are 11 in the group, and last evening they were wondering
why these trips aren't greatly oversubscribed instead of being
I have been contacted by an international agency looking for
an expert consultant on land problems in Guyana. This is an
interesting country and we should go out of our way to recruit
a friend to help out on this project. If you know of someonw please
have them contact me ASAP at
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On, Tue, 31 May 1994 14:56:01 -0700, Paul Cockshott, Paul C. writes:
I would dispute that the prices of personal computers have fallen
markedly. I bought the first personal computer to become available
in this country, the Nascom I, which cost 199 pounds sterling in
1978. Modern PCs retail in
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Whilst prices of home computers has not drastically changed,
the price of a computer capbable of performing a specific organisational
task in industry has certainly undergone a drastic fall.
But to attribute this to price competition is to get things back to
front. The determining factor is that
Watching this discussion on the price of computers my thick head has a
couple of obvious questions which come from a comment by a friend who said
"Watching a parachute decend one cannot understand either gravity or air
resistance, but one needs both gravity and air resistance to understand the
Doug's book has been already advertised by Routledge.
Anthony
On Thu, 2 Jun 1994, R. Anders Schneiderman wrote:
A few months ago, someone posted a blurb on a book written by several
progressive economists on U.S. finance. Does anyone remember the cite?
Thanks,
Anders Schneiderman
UCB
Paul Cockshott writes,
"the Babbage/Marx/Braverman analysis of the labour process is
unable to account for how the labour content can have been so
dramatically reduced. To focus on price competition is to pick on
a trivial question in comparison."
I agree with the comment on price competition,
