Max, Do you have Eileen Appelbaum's email address by any chance? Thanks
in anticipation!
Kind regards
Martin Watts
Department of Economics
University of Newcastle
New South Wales 2308
Australia
Email: [EMAIL
Can we have some real-life identifier here?
Anthony D'Costa
To whom...,
Mr. Lear writes: "Bill Gates in fact sells little, individualized,
non-scalable factories (Excel, Word, etc.) for producing knowledge that
are made out of software. Once in the hands of the end-user, they must
then exert considerable effort to create
Rakesh,
Strict labor-value adherence once again led you to the brink of
absurdity on Saturday. The limit on mechanization is physics, not surplus
value. Clearly, clearly, clearly, if a series of solar powered robots could
be created to fulfill the needs of a
Reflecting again on this question and in the light of Alfred Sohn-
Rethel's Geistige und koerperliche Arbeit (1970 -- the English translation
is unfortunately deficient), and his Warenform und Denkform (1971,
untranslated, as far as I know) with its remarkable 1936 critique of
the Frankfurt
Why is the theft of alien labor time a miserable foundation for creation of
wealth? One reading of this *Grundrisse* passage is the one I offered:
while the utilization of machinery has indeed been inspired by the need for
relative surplus value (and for this no one had a greater appreciation
For once I disagree with Rakesh: Mattick fell into productivist error,
which Marx defintiely did not (and I remember the strong terms in
which Alfred Sohn-Rethel, who knew Mattick, criticised him for this).
Better to read the Grundrisse than Wages, Prices and Profit, and then
to put Mattick's
William S. Lear wrote:
And how, exactly, is the marginal cost of info-production zero? I can
understand how this might be very small, for certain "info". But even
replicating electronic messages carries a cost that is non-zero (ever
try to administer a busy, high-speed network or a mail
And how, exactly, is the marginal cost of info-production zero? I can
I presume what Prof. Perelman meant was that once
created, information can be used by additional
persons or additional times without cost, unlike
depreciable capital or 'exhaustible' consumption
goods. Conveying or
Rakesh Bhandari wrote:
Why is the theft of alien labor time a miserable foundation for creation of
wealth?
I have a somewhat different interpretation of miserable. My reading of the
passage is, that as direct labor becomes a smaller and smaller part of the
entire production process of a
On Sat, March 21, 1998 at 11:42:31 (+) Mark Jones writes:
... the era of so-called informatics,
which, as Rob Schaap and I and Michael Perelman and many many others
have been and are pointing out, contains a radical internal
contradiction, in that the marginal cost
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