Are you saying that they were thinking that a swineherd equaled 2.3 slaves working as field hands? I am just questioning that the people were reduced to such mathematical equivalents.
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Paul Cockshott <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- 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
