RE: Sweezy's occ\Shaikh

2002-10-31 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: [PEN-L:31709] Sweezy's occ\Shaikh Paul A writes: Jim: I would love to know what you think of Shaikh and Tonak's book. I plan on absorbing more of it (it can be slow going for the mathematicly impaired) but seems to be extremely relevant to your interests. It is a good example of

Re: RE: Sweezy's occ\Shaikh

2002-10-31 Thread e. ahmet tonak
Devine, James wrote: RE: [PEN-L:31709] Sweezy's occ\Shaikh Paul A writes: Jim: I would love to know what you think of Shaikh and Tonak's book. I plan on absorbing more of it (it can be slow going for the mathematicly impaired) but seems to be extremely relevant to

RE: Re: RE: Sweezy's occ\Shaikh

2002-10-31 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: [PEN-L:31728] Re: RE: Sweezy's occ\Shaikh E. Ahmet Tonak writes: Thanks for the appreciation for our work. It was hard work! I'd like to address Jim's objection to our inclusion of the wages of unproductive labor should be included as a positive number in the numerator of the rate

Re: RE: Re: RE: Sweezy's occ\Shaikh

2002-10-31 Thread Michael Perelman
With the difficulties of unproductive labor and the depreciation question that I have been harping on, don't we have to aceept that estimates of profit rates are merely suggestive of the underlying reality? Also, do we accept market prices as reflection of the level of abstract labor that a