Unfortunately I cannot remember where it came from, but as a student I once used this slave accounting document - http://www.box.net/shared/1pqjot9tbmiyfu36rq3n - which shows how "negroes upon Pleasant Hill Plantation" lose and gain value over time as a function primarily of age - it seems - but likely also other factors.
m On 17/07/11 22:01, Paul Cockshott wrote: > No I do not thing that they would specify them that way, agricultural slaves > are just slaves they are pretty much all equivalent, though I suspect that > their price would vary with strength and fitness. > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On > Behalf Of michael perelman [[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2011 9:55 PM > To: Progressive Economics > Subject: Re: [Pen-l] Ingo Elbe Between Marx, Marxism, and Marxisms, Part I.3 > > 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 > > The University of Glasgow, charity number SC004401 > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- http://commoning.wordpress.com "...I thought we were an autonomous collective..." _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
