Rob asked me if I had any thoughts on the web pages.
I am all for it. :)
Best,
Hans.
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In response to John Walker's inquiry regarding the link
between money and gold:
According to Marx, the first function of money is "measure
of value." Capitalism can only function if there is a
reliable and stable way to measure the values of the
commodities, so that the capitalists know whether
r is elevated to
the governing social principle of production. Marx uses for
all this the shorthand formulation that exchange value,
i.e., the ability of commodities to exchange themselves for
other commodities, is "the mere mode of expression, `form of
appearance,. of some substance distinguishable from it."
Hans Ehrbar
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J. Walker's question is pertinent:
>How can money - as the universal measure of value -
>function if it does not itself have any value?
This is a very important point. Under capitalism, political
power cannot create economic facts. There were several
attempts to answer this question, but I do
I had written:
>>Had the Bank of England, under the gold standard, used the
>>convertibility of its bank notes as the sole criterion for
>>how many bank notes to issue, it would have issued too many
>>bank notes.
Lew responded:
>Too many bank notes for what? All banks were required by law to o
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