From: Sandwichman <[email protected]> It seems to me that these methodological objections melt into thin air once one begins to contend with the fact that in business practice, not just in data massaging, labor costs, wage rates, prices, profit margins etc. are determined on the basis of accounting conventions. The conclusion, then, is not merely that prices and labour costs correlate BUT that capitalist managers actively seek to bring about such a correlation.
^^^^^ CB: Isn't this also sort of why the principles Marx enunciates in _Capital_ are almost self-evidently true in capitalism ? ^^^^ That is, we're not talking about a natural process with some random some law-bound characteristics but about a goal-directed human intervention. This is like studying the correlation between freeway traffic volumes and work schedules. There's some random noise and there's some backward causation but for the most part the correlation results from intentional design -- the freeways were BUILT to ACCOMMODATE commute traffic. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
