On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > > We agree. -- Sandwichman
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