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2002-01-28 Thread Rakesh Bhandari
How you measuring accumulation? If you're measuring profitability in relative rather than absolute terms, shouldn't you measure accumulation relatively as well? Doug, I meant by accumulation what Jim D is (I believe) referring to as net investment. I think I agree with Jim that the

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2002-01-15 Thread Michael Perelman
Doug, that I think that the big capitalists do understand their interest. The small ones to whom the Wall Street Journal appeals on their editorial page do not. We were just discussing yesterday how major businesspeople appreciate Marxist analysis. On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 02:15:22PM -0500, Doug

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2002-01-15 Thread Carrol Cox
Doug Henwood wrote: And when are those contradictions of capitalism that Rakesh is talking about really going to bite? I mean something more than a nibble. The phrase has been around for what, like a century? They've been biting every second of every day for several hundred years.