LTV: responses to critics

1994-03-29 Thread Allin Cottrell
Time to try to answer some of Barkley Rosser's questions. 1. There were two main aspects of my postings on the LTV, relating respectively to the formation of prices in capitalist economies and to the issue of rational costing in a planned economy. In my last posting (part 12) I argued that t

LTV: responses to critics

1994-03-29 Thread Allin Cottrell
Time to try to answer some of Barkley Rosser's questions. 1. There were two main aspects of my postings on the LTV, relating respectively to the formation of prices in capitalist economies and to the issue of rational costing in a planned economy. In my last posting (part 12) I argued that t

LTV: Responses to critics

1994-03-26 Thread Allin Cottrell
I shall first attempt to answer Steve Keen's questions. 1. Steve asks whether I would accept that what I have defended is really a Labor Measure of Value (LMV) rather than a Labor Theory of Value (LTV). No, I wouldn't. An LMV, as I understand it, is what you find in Smith's advocacy of labor *c

LTV: Responses to critics

1994-03-26 Thread Allin Cottrell
I shall first attempt to answer Steve Keen's questions. 1. Steve asks whether I would accept that what I have defended is really a Labor Measure of Value (LMV) rather than a Labor Theory of Value (LTV). No, I wouldn't. An LMV, as I understand it, is what you find in Smith's advocacy of labor *c