-----Original Message----- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carrol Cox
Eubulides wrote: > > > > Also, you can't improve the productivity of musicians performing the "Minute > Waltz." > Just playing around. If methods of teaching improve, there will be less total labor time embodied in the musicians, so while performing the piece takes the same amount of time, it took less total social time. Improvement in methods of instruction might also result in requiring less rehearsal time for a given production. And do you count the travel time from the musicians' home to the theatre as part of the time expended on producing that waltz? :-) Carrol ---------------------------- Those are good questions. Lisa, my beloved-musician, is reading F.M. Scherer's book on the economics of orchestras and operas and while he spends a few pages on the learning and pedagogical strategies of the great composers, there is no entry for 'time' in the index from which I could cull and paste the relevant quotes in a flash. There's also some interesting stuff on social/individual learning time[s] in Geoff Hodgson's 'Economics and Utopia' that are worth checking out. I think these issues overlap with what Jonathan has been asserting regarding the measurement problems of 'abstract labor time'. Ian
