>A commodity is something that is for sale.
>Industrial capital is for sale everyday. The recent round of mergers and
>takeovers demonstrate that without doubt.
>
>George is in fact claiming that we do not live in a capitalist society.
>
>The first sentence of Capital, is one of the most brilliant
My ref to Coase was that that seemed to me to be what you were describing in
your original post, that within the firm relations aren't determined by
market bargaining but by command. But your response indicates that you seem
to have understood what I was getting at? As far as agriculture, you sa
I wrote: >> maybe he's suggesting that industrial capital as a social
relationship isn't a commodity. It involves a non-market (non-commodity)
relationship of domination of workers within production. (Of course, that
authoritarianism is within the framework of a commodity-producing society
t
I agree completely with this. One point I would add is that we cannot
predict in advance which sectors/strata/elements/whatever of the
working class will be in motion (or mobilizable) at any given time. This
is one reason not to arbitrarily exclude from the working class some
sector of it (e.g.
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Jim Devine wrote:
> At 07:37 PM 3/9/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >You have missed nothing, Mat. A commodity is something that is for sale.
> >Industrial capital is for sale everyday. The recent round of mergers and
> >takeovers demonstrate that without doubt.
> >
> >George is in fa
So, Coase's 1930s article, Jim? And why wouldn't that apply to social
relations in capitalist agriculture? My hunch is that there is a confusion
about the term "commodity." That he may be thinking that commodities are
consumption goods or something. I would define commodity a little more
speci
At 07:37 PM 3/9/00 -0500, you wrote:
>You have missed nothing, Mat. A commodity is something that is for sale.
>Industrial capital is for sale everyday. The recent round of mergers and
>takeovers demonstrate that without doubt.
>
>George is in fact claiming that we do not live in a capitalist soci
You have missed nothing, Mat. A commodity is something that is for sale.
Industrial capital is for sale everyday. The recent round of mergers and
takeovers demonstrate that without doubt.
George is in fact claiming that we do not live in a capitalist society.
The first sentence of Capital, is on
Capital goods are commodities. Am I missing something?
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From: George Pennefather <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Capital and Class <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, March 09, 2000 12:55 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:17024] Capital is wrong
>
>In the opening paragraph of Capital Marx pr
In the opening paragraph of Capital Marx proclaims:
The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails,
presents itself as "an immense accumulation of commodities," its unit being a single
commodity. Our investigation must therefore begin with the analysis of a com
>>> Max Sawicky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/07/00 04:56PM >>>
The share of GDP is projected to rise.
So we've got to figure out how
to spend a bunch of money.
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OOPS!! I thought I was replying only to Charles Brown. (I'd better go get
some more coffee.) Sorry about burdening the list with my files. In any
event, comments are welcome. I have been known to change my mind once and
awhile (on average, once per decade ;-) ), so that you may change the
dire
At 12:57 PM 3/9/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >>> Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/09/00 12:02PM >>>I presented
> this view at the URPE@ASSA conference in Boston in January: as
>part of my preliminary empirical results, I showed a pretty tight
>relationship between stagflation (as measured by the sum
>>> Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 03/09/00 12:02PM >>>I presented this view at
>the URPE@ASSA conference in Boston in January: as
part of my preliminary empirical results, I showed a pretty tight
relationship between stagflation (as measured by the sum of the inflation
rate and the full-capa
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Jim Devine wrote:
> Further, a theory of class structure (a la Wright) is only about the
> objective conditions faced by people (classes in themselves). It's a big
> step to go from there to talking about classes that are organized and
> conscious (classes for themselves). Of course, taking that
Fwd: SLATE NEWS: Thurs., March 9, 2000
>The Washington Post leads with President Clinton's introduction of a bill
>to secure permanent normal trade relations [a.k.a. "most favored nation"
>status] with China, a story fronted by the New York Times and Los Angeles
>Times ...
>
>In a speech at Jo
At 10:06 PM 3/8/00 -0800, you wrote:
>March 9, 2000
>
> ECONOMIC SCENE [NEW YORK TIMES, 9 March 2000]
>
> Demise of Long-Held Theory
> on Inflation and
> Unemployment
>
> By BRADFORD DE LONG
To me, the conflict theory of inflation helps explain this mainstream
conun
>Yes an interesting article pointing to the break-up of an old paradigm.
>
>The main limitation - and not everything can be carried in one article - is
the assumption that we are talking about one country
touche...
>March 9, 2000
>
>
> ECONOMIC SCENE
>
> Demise of Long-Held Theory
> on Inflation and
> Unemployment
>
> By BRADFORD DE LONG
>
> Whatever happened to the Phillips curve?
thanks...
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>In an analytic context the damage is already done by misidentifying the groups
>involved as "middle strata" (a meaningless concept) and by labelling the
>alliance
>in question as "cross-class."
Harry Braverman used the concept of the "middle strata" well, while I like
the (old) Erik O. Wright
BLS DAILY REPORT, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 2000
__The productivity of U.S. private nonfarm workers grew at a blazing revised
rate of 6.4 percent in the fourth quarter of 1999, representing the largest
increase in seven years, BLS reported. Gains in fourth-quarter
productivity, or output per hour, top
Carrol:
There are 2 primary problems with what you wrote:
1. Most social workers and teachers do not have the autonomy you ascribe to them: if
you are a child protective worker, you have to remove a child from a home; if you are
a school teacher, you may have to deny a student an automatic pro
Yes an interesting article pointing to the break-up of an old paradigm.
The main limitation - and not everything can be carried in one article - is
the assumption that we are talking about one country. Perhaps that was
valid in the 50's but now IMO countries like the USA and the UK have been
grea
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