RE: Re: he profit rate recession

2002-01-28 Thread Devine, James
weed[ing] out inefficient plant and equipment, creating a much newer capital stock isn't disinvestment? (after all, cleaning out the dead wood lowers the average age of the capital stock.) replacing 1/2 of all manufacturing equipment in the US may not be disinvestment, but it's probably not net

Re: RE: Re: he profit rate recession

2002-01-28 Thread Rakesh Bhandari
weed[ing] out inefficient plant and equipment, creating a much newer capital stock isn't disinvestment? (after all, cleaning out the dead wood lowers the average age of the capital stock.) replacing 1/2 of all manufacturing equipment in the US may not be disinvestment, but it's probably not net

Re: RE: Re: he profit rate recession

2002-01-28 Thread Michael Perelman
I never got that idea. You were talking about deindustrialization in an earlier post, which tends to be association with relocating production abroad. I only said that that process was not that common during the 1930s, compared with recent times. Devine, James wrote: I don't know where you