Re: [Marxism] K2 study guide

2009-08-25 Thread Tom Cod
that insight is unique to Marxism in any sense. Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:45:58 -0700 From: bhand...@berkeley.edu Subject: [Marxism] K2 study guide To: t...@hotmail.com Grossman offered a profound disequilibrium interpretation of volume II, as Steve Palmer knows quite well (and please accept my

Re: [Marxism] K2 study guide

2009-08-25 Thread Tom Cod
meaning? how does this differ from financial and cost accounting? Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:51:28 -0400 From: theguavat...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Marxism] K2 study guide To: t...@hotmail.com On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 12:41 PM, S. Artesian sartes...@earthlink.netwrote: In fact

Re: [Marxism] K2 study guide

2009-08-25 Thread Tom Cod
Ya know, this whole discussion to me is yet another reflection of the ossified in-group Talmudic view of certain Marxists who conceit themselves with the notion that nobody but them knows anything about economics and therefore the sine quo non is studying the works of a grand old man of the

Re: [Marxism] K2 study guide

2009-08-25 Thread Shane Mage
On Aug 25, 2009, at 3:28 PM, guava tree wrote: and in this chapter of volume 2 you can find this paragraph: The productive capital invested in this industry imparts value to the transported products, partly by transferring value from the means of transportation, partly by adding value

Re: [Marxism] K2 study guide

2009-08-25 Thread Michael Perelman
David knows this better than I do. The railroad promoters got rich; the investors got burned. Railroads were bankrupt with regularity. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu

Re: [Marxism] K2 study guide

2009-08-25 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 8/25/2009 12:42:14 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, sartes...@earthlink.net writes: Equilibrium is accidental, not necessary, and as such is not an essential characteristic, either in its presence or absence, to the success or failure of capitalism. We can look at Rakesh

Re: [Marxism] K2 study guide

2009-08-25 Thread Tom Cod
Railroads in their inception and throughout their consolidation give us an early object lesson in the uses of fictitious capital.-sartesianAn entertaining take on this history, worthy of HBO's Deadwood are some recent biographies of Jay Gould and The Commodore Vanderbilt. Below is a review I

Re: [Marxism] K2 study guide

2009-08-25 Thread Michael Perelman
I might take the opportunity to plug my book, Railroading Economics (Monthly Review). Also, a cheap price. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com

[Marxism] K2 study guide

2009-08-25 Thread Rakesh Bhandari
Yet, sartesian, ships are not discarded simply to maintain the value proportions between the departments (they may of course be discarded due to moral or value depreciation as a result of competitive technological change, but that is another point). As viable technical means of production or

Re: [Marxism] K2 study guide

2009-08-25 Thread S. Artesian
I guess that means I better read the book. OK, give me a few days. - Original Message - From: Michael Perelman mich...@ecst.csuchico.edu To: David Schanoes sartes...@earthlink.net Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 9:09 PM Subject: Re: [Marxism] K2 study guide On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 09

[Marxism] K2 Study Guide Re: to read?

2009-08-24 Thread Steve Palmer
Also, John Fox's Understanding Capital Volume II, Progress Books, Toronto, 1985 is very helpful, particularly when confronting some of the more demanding passages on one's own. This is in the queue to appear at the MIA, but don't hold your breath ... Steve thanks for all the comments--I'm

Re: [Marxism] K2 Study Guide Re: to read?

2009-08-24 Thread Bill O'Connor
Steve Palmer spalmer...@yahoo.com writes: Also, John Fox's Understanding Capital Volume II, Progress Books, Toronto, 1985 is very helpful, particularly when confronting some of the more demanding passages on one's own. This is in the queue to appear at the MIA, but don't hold your breath ...

[Marxism] K2 study guide

2009-08-24 Thread Rakesh Bhandari
Grossman offered a profound disequilibrium interpretation of volume II, as Steve Palmer knows quite well (and please accept my profound thanks for your mighty contributions to the archive). By the way, J.R. Hicks came to a similar understanding of the special liabilities suffered by the

Re: [Marxism] K2 study guide

2009-08-24 Thread Rakesh Bhandari
Doesn't Harvey attempt to locate Marx's crisis theory in interdepartmental disproportionalities rather than in insufficient production of a flow of surplus value? But perhaps we don't have to choose. Mattick Sr for example wrote (think here of that example where demand goes from 100 ships to