Reply to: Reparations! by Chris Burford 08 May 2004
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We, the human race, workers by hand or brain, need a strategy that
demands control over global funding for development, welfare and the
care of the environment, under social control.
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The West
not only has an apology to make
A possibly improved comment to supersede my previous comment --
RE:
Jim Devine, A Simple Neoclassical Model of Marxian Exploitation: An
Outline, dated January 7, 2004, available online
Comment:
Previously I wrote I do not see the Marx in this. etc - From the
viewpoint of academic guerrilla
Jim, I am referring to your:
A Simple Neoclassical Model of Marxian Exploitation: An Outline,
dated January 7, 2004, available online
Specifically I am referring to your (near Chart IV):
[quote]
I. Determination of the level of employment by the expected rate of profit.
It is argued at length in
I believe to have read somewhere that of the first German edition of Karl
Marx, Das Kapital, only 100 (one hundred) copies were printed. Does anyone
know about that? Thanks - GK
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please scroll down for my comment on Paul's comment on Ahmet's comment
E. Ahmet Tonak wrote:
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Specifically and in order to point out how dramatic the empirical sense one
may get based on these two different approaches I'd like to compare some
preliminary estimates of the rate of
just published in CJE - empirical study - abstract below
Cambridge Journal of Economics 27:919-933 (2003)
Copyright © 2003 Cambridge Political Economy Society
Estimating the surplus in the periphery: an application to Turkey
Cem Somel
Middle East Technical University.
Address for correspondence:
Yoshie wrote:
The so-called anti-globalization movement is a mixed bag. . . . Anarchist
and autonomist intellectuals, if anything, mainly serve to entertain, . . .
During the recent European Social Forum in Paris, France, the anars and
libertarians of various stripes chose NOT to mingle with
Jim Devine wrote:
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[quote]
This case above is a case where the rate of surplus-value is different for
different groups of workers (and could apply instead to different ethnic
groups, e.g., Blacks vs. Whites in the USA).
In my article on the so-called transformation problem (in RESEARCH
Jurriaan wrote:
. . . a differential rate of exploitation for males and females due to the
fact that females get
paid less than males, or to greater productivity at work.
I like the expression differential rate of exploitation. In a
left-Keynesian mode of analysis, which I am supporting,
Mike B wrote:
Aren't wages determined by. . . what a worker can get for
their skills on the market?
My example assumed that the skills of women and men were the same and that
the wages were different due to discrimination.
GK
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Jurriaan B wrote:
A transfer of surplus-value occurs only in exchange, not in production,.
. .
It was exactly the purpose of my example to show that something can go wrong
at the point of production. It is not a transfer of *income*, because the
women do not hand over 110 of their earned dollars
this is further to some recent posts on surplus-value and transfer value.
A bit dry. Sorry, folks.
Jim Devine explained (see, full post of 08nov03 below) that there are:
(1) standard Marxian surplus-value
(2) the surplus-product of exploited direct producers in other modes of
production such as
further to the dicussion on surplus-value etc - and thanks for your
comments! - and using Jim Devine's expression (below) of pool of global
surplus-value, QUESTION: what does a worker in a sweatshop factory in Haiti
contribute to the pool of *global* surplus-value (SV)?
My example is from a
Thanks, Chris Burford and Andrew Hagen, for your
interest in my posting. It
is nice to get some support from highly esteemed comrades.
The brand name issue - I agree that global Keynesianism is as little
satisfactory as a brand
name as most other names for this kind of thing. There is a
a comment on Burford's post --
In my opinion, Japan's problems are not only
Japan's problems but a world system problem. I look at this in a
global-Keynesian kind of way. The capitalist world system tends to generate more
supply than demand. There is not enough global effective demand in the
Bravo !!! from the rank and file.
gk
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message:
Globaloney, competition and
bollocks
by Rob
Schaap25
February
2001
G'day all,
Whilst scanning the *Australian Financial Review*
yesterday, I took down a fewnotes and allowed
Could it be that Kofi Annan's appointment of a high
level advisory group re global poverty is meant to preempt the high level
advisory group planned by the G77 at the recent South Summit (see excerpts,
below)? Or is Annan's advisory group identical with the planned G77 advisory
group of
Paul,
thanks, this is a very interesting case which helps. Concerning transfers
between the republics of former Yugoslavia, how do those compare with
transfers from richer to poorer provinces in Canada? Were they of comparable
magnitude (in relative terms) or significantly more?
Gernot Kohler
pen-l'ers, what would be some general references for the topic of "theory of
socialist international economics"? I am aware of critiques of global
capitalism and imperialism; that is not what I am asking about. I am rather
wondering about something else. Suppose the world were a commonwealth of
My thanks to several of you who sent interesting material and answers
regarding the concept of "political economy" in response to my question
little while ago.
Here is another question-- re global money. There are sections in Das
Kapital
which deal with "Weltgeld" (world money, global money)
Can someone please comment on whether or not the following is correct?
The meaning of the expression "political economy", as it is used today, is
not identical with the meaning of the expression "political economy", as it
was used by Marx and his contemporaries. In today's usage, "political
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