"if we consider that production is an unsymmetrical function of manual and scientific labour;
Asymmetrical, not unsymmetrical. For example, rIght now, there are hundreds of Australian mercenaries in Somaliland & Puntland protecting a handful of oil company geological engineers. It would seem that the productivity of scientific labor is directly connected to, *dependent* on, the physical, and wouldn't survive very long without it. There is a symbiotic relationship, or in the case of finance capital 'labor' (GoldmanSachs), parasitic. Leigh "Nobody can do everything But everybody can do something" --Gil Scott Heron, Work For Peace On 4/26/07, Robert Scott Gassler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
No, it is IMpossibility. It has to do with minimizing the chance of making a mistake. If you do not know whose tastes are expensive and whose are simple, you give them both the same. At 17:20 22/04/2007, Jim Devine wrote: >Robert Gassler wrote: >>I seem to recall that Lutz and Lux in their The Challenge of >>Humanistic Economics pointed out that the utilitarians of the 19th >>century thought that the impossibility of interpersonal comparisons >>implied that all people should make the same income.< > >rather, it's the possibility of interpersonal comparisons of utility >(and diminishing marginal utility) that implies egalitarianism (in >this view). If giving $100 to a rich guy gives him less extra utility >than it would to a poor guy (under diminishing marginal utility), then >taking away $100 from the rich guy and giving it to the poor guy would >increase over-all utility. We could continue this until their incomes >are roughly equal. Thus, the neoclassicals decided to drop >interpersonal comparisons of utility when they could. > >>By the way, at 6'4" (1m93) I take issue with Prof Mankiw. My >>grad-school colleague [the?] Dennis Miller once wrote that tall >>people have shorter lifespans. It should even out somehow.< > >it's likely true: big dogs live shorter lives than small ones do, after all. > > >-- >Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your >own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
