On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:16 AM, raghu <[email protected]> wrote:

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> Aren't you assuming that different types of costs (labor, environmental)
> are somehow commensurable i.e. that it is possible do an objective
> accounting of the costs and savings of a given technology so that we can
> then check to see if we have a negative or positive balance?
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No, I am assuming that it is currently very difficult to estimate the
magnitude of these costs and that this difficulty is made worse by the
impulse to do the accounting in monetary units, which essentially ratifies
the fetishization of the social relations underlying the commodity form.


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