Doug wrote, > > I was just citing the convention of the NIPAs. Conceptually, the > people who make up households have to be the producers and recipients > of everything, since corps are just legal fictions, no?
It is a fiction that corporations are "quasi-persons." Regardless of that, corporations are the major sites of surplus generation and decision-making for what is to be done with the surplus in modern capitalist economies. I wonder the extent to which the assertion that households have to be producers/recipients is due to the requirements of methodological individualism. eric
