On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 12:31 PM, c b <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 ? >
Yes, that would be my understanding. > > ^^^^ > > 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 > -- Sandwichman
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