Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: : Value talk

2002-02-07 Thread Rakesh Bhandari
>>>You still don't get it. Even if there is enough demand takes up 100% >>>of the production, the profitability drops because the stuff can be >>>produced cheaper, but the firms who invested in the >>>oldertechnmologies have these huge sunk costs taht they cannot nake >>>back. >> >>Still don't u

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: : Value talk

2002-02-06 Thread Justin Schwartz
> >> >>You still don't get it. Even if there is enough demand takes up 100% >>of the production, the profitability drops because the stuff can be >>produced cheaper, but the firms who invested in the >>oldertechnmologies have these huge sunk costs taht they cannot nake >>back. > >Still don't und

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Value talk

2002-02-05 Thread Justin Schwartz
>>I thought I was pretty mild. > >Referring to your interlocutor as desperate and inward turning is >clearly not mild, I refereed to the theory that way, and not to any of its advocates. but I suspect that I shall be blamed for the >rancor >on the list as I was supposed to take the heat for Paul

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Value talk

2002-02-05 Thread Rakesh Bhandari
> >I thought I was pretty mild. Referring to your interlocutor as desperate and inward turning is clearly not mild, but I suspect that I shall be blamed for the rancor on the list as I was supposed to take the heat for Paul Phillips' explosion. > >> >>Moreover, note that I raised the questio

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Value talk

2002-02-05 Thread Justin Schwartz
> >Justin, you expect us to move on after you characterize my attempts >as inward turning--this is exactly what the Marxian law of value is >not! Well, I'm out of energy, anyway. And these are not the points I am after, as should be clear to >you after years of debate. There is a willful ignora

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Value talk

2002-02-05 Thread Rakesh Bhandari
>R, I think we have reached the point of diminishing marginal >returns. I agree with Fred Guy: the work on the LTV for a century >has been a desperate, inward-turning attempt tos how that it can be >made coherent in the face of increasing masses of fatal objections, >and it's not doing real w

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Value talk

2002-02-05 Thread Justin Schwartz
R, I think we have reached the point of diminishing marginal returns. I agree with Fred Guy: the work on the LTV for a century has been a desperate, inward-turning attempt tos how that it can be made coherent in the face of increasing masses of fatal objections, and it's not doing real work.