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Budgen sounds like the Metallica of left academia. Don't forget Routledge in the parasite rentier mix, sitting athwart the academic-intellectual nexus. Here's an example: Rosa Luxemburg and the Critique of Political Economy http://www.amazon.com/Luxemburg-Critique-Political-Routledge-Economics/dp/041540570X Even the used paperback is $47! Nothing on libcom, alas. Last resort is to scan the library copy. And yes, this research has connection to, among others, the Marxian rent concept. The bloated prices for academic books is an excellent example of the essentially arbitrary magnitude of rent/surplus profit tribute. Unlike in Marx's examples, set in capitalist agricultural production, these intellectual products are non-productively consumed. The sphere of non-productive consumption is ipso facto not directly regulated by the law of value, as is capitalist production. Therefor the differential regulation of rent magnitude analyzed by Marx does not necessarily hold here, and is one reason capital swarms into the "consumer sector". -Matt ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
