okay, how do you assign prices? how valuable is the Sun?

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Max B. Sawicky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jim Devine wrote:
>
> > Miracle Max mutters:
> >
> > > Don't ask me how this works in re: the Cambridge capital controversy.  I
> > > wouldn't know.  Maybe it just doesn't, but it wasn't clear that was
> Father
> > > Devine's principal objection.  In any case I would say this stuff is
> worth
> > > measuring, somehow.
> > >
> >
> > the Camb Cap Contr, among many other things, says that the value of
> > "capital" depends on the prices. If some piece of Nature isn't valued
> > by capitalism, its distribution of income, the tastes it encourages
> > people to embrace, etc., then it won't count in calculating "natural
> > capital."
> >
> > (That's not exactly non-intuitive, so we don't need the Camb Cap Contr
> > to make the point.)
> >
>
>
>  (Still muttering)  But some natural capital assets are marketed and have
> prices.
>  For something less solid, like clean air, there is some cost of attaining
> it and
>  some willingness to pay.  Public capital is not marketed and clearly has
> value.
>  What's the problem?
>
>
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