Hi Tom, Haven't had a chance to read your book yet but noticed your Sismondi quote at the end of Ch. 4. You might consider attributing the origin of "wealth as disposable time" to Sismondi as well. Cf: Sismondi's 1815 article in the Edinburgh Encyclopedia entitled "Political Economy" (widely available on the web). In discussing wealth in its most basic form, i.e. within a self-contained R. Crusoe economy, he writes the following in Ch. 2 (Corresponding to Book II of his N.P.d'E.P): "The measure of his wealth will not be the price, which he might obtain for his property in exchange, because he is debarred from all exchange, but the length of time during which no farther labour will be requisite to satisfy his wants, compared with the extent of those wants."
John V On 11/29/2010 5:41 PM, Sandwichman wrote: ... The 1821 pamphlet was the origin of the phrase about wealth > being disposable time that Marx was so fond of. > _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
