the Sandwichman: > Rob Bryer is an accounting professor at the University of Warwick in the > U.K. In a 2006 article, "Accounting and the Labour Process," Bryer argued > that Marx's analysis can best be understood from an accounting perspective. > Double-entry book-keeping was the technology that enabled the domination of > labor to pass from the subjective master/slave, lord/serf relationship to an > objective balance sheet driven one between abstract capital and social > labor.
this is what I've been saying for ages: "values" represent a true-by-definition accounting framework. As such, values cannot be seen as being in the same theoretical category as prices. Nor should anyone try to "derive" prices from values. Deviations between values and prices are just as important to Marx as are the similarities. In some ways, the price vs. value contrast is like the one between private costs and social costs. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
