On Aug 6, 2012, at 5:41 PM, Paul Cockshott <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> As it happens the Swedish input output tables give labour inputs in actual 
> hours for industrial sectors. Most countries give the labour input in terms 
> of wages paid. It is possible to invert the Swedish tables and directly 
> obtain the number of socially necessary hours of labour in the output of each 
> industry.

Hours aren't hard to measure. It's the socially necessary and abstract parts 
that are impossible to measure. Money's the best approximation we've got.

Doug
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