He added up the different concrete labours to arrive at a total number of slaves, Varro is trying to get a general formula for the labour required for land, he criticises Cato for not taking into account the fact that there are economies of scale in the use of certain types of labour. What he wants is a formula for how many slaves a farmer has to buy. In order to do that, he has of course to identify the individual tasks, but slaves constitute labour in the abstract given the then existing relations of production. A slave, at the command of the dominus must perform any task to which he or she is allocated. ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of michael perelman [[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2011 8:20 PM To: Progressive Economics Subject: Re: [Pen-l] Ingo Elbe Between Marx, Marxism, and Marxisms, Part I.3
in the Roman example you gave, the recipe for the farm consisted of concrete labor. I did not see any consideration of flows of value per time. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l The University of Glasgow, charity number SC004401 _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
