Somehow I overlooked this (long past) reply from Wojtek, who wrote in
response to my question,
Hmm. What can the "exchange-value" of a good (as opposed, for example, the
good's "value") refer to, if not to price *in some sense*?
, this answer:
The ability to fetch other goods that coincides,
In response to my question,
Hmm. What can the "exchange-value" of a good (as opposed, for example, the
good's "value") refer to, if not to price *in some sense*?
Ken writes
COMMENT: What I wrote here was incorrect or at least misleading. I simply
wanted to distinguish exchange value from
Gil writes:
Some questions and comments on Ken's discussion of the "Lockean proviso"
Mixing one's labor with land gave "natural" ownership claims to land
according to Locke. However, there is as Nozick (the erstwhile libertarian)
Erstwhile? What has he become?
COMMENT:
At 04:01 PM 10/20/97 -0400, Gil Skillman wrote, inter alia:
Hmm. What can the "exchange-value" of a good (as opposed, for example, the
good's "value") refer to, if not to price *in some sense*?
The ability to fetch other goods that coincides, yet is analytically
different from price. I can
ship?" (ANARCHY, STATE, UTOPIA)
Nozick himself notes that if someone dug a well in an area and
that was the only place that there was water in the area that the Lockean
proviso would imply that the well-digger would not have any exclusive
"natural" ownership claims since it would
