Re: value vs price

2002-02-07 Thread miyachi
on 2/7/02 06:30 AM, Charles Brown at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: value vs price by Devine, James 05 February 2002 19:46 UTC On exploitation, my take is that he noticed that in FACT, throughout history, exploited and oppressed classes struggle against their exploitation and oppression.

Re: value vs. price

2002-02-07 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: Charles Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 9:34 AM Subject: [PEN-L:22536] value vs. price value vs. price by Ian Murray 07 February 2002 01:47 UTC = You're right, there is no new

RE: value vs price

2002-02-06 Thread Devine, James
Charles wrote: On exploitation, my take is that he noticed that in FACT, throughout history, exploited and oppressed classes struggle against their exploitation and oppression. Opposition to exploitation is a human natural ethical project ; the is of history and the ought of what

Re: value vs. price

2002-02-06 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: Charles Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 9:09 AM Subject: [PEN-L:22467] value vs. price value vs. price by Ian Murray 05 February 2002 17:09 UTC = Ok but surely we can understand

RE: Re: value vs. price

2002-02-05 Thread Devine, James
[Ian gave me permission to send this one-to-one communication to the pen-l list as a whole.] I wrote:the real-world fallacy of composition (or division) is crucial: in this context, it says that the microeconomic processes governed by prices do not correspond to the macroeconomic processes

Re: RE: Re: value vs. price

2002-02-05 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 2/5/2002 8:59:14 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As Cornel West's analysis of Marx's take on morality suggests, Marx applied the standards of "bourgeois right" (trading at price = value) to show that capitalist violates _its own standards_. Marx clearly had

Re: RE: Re: value vs. price

2002-02-05 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 6:56 AM Subject: [PEN-L:22384] RE: Re: value vs. price [Ian gave me permission to send this one-to-one communication to the pen-l list as a whole.] I wrote:the real-world

RE: value vs price

2002-02-05 Thread Devine, James
Charles writes: CB: My take on Marx normative issues is that he asserts many injunctions ( such as Workers of the world , unite, the thing is to change the world) , so he has an ethical component to his theory. Ethics is what one does, and so Marx's emphasis on the unity of theory and

Re: value vs. price

2002-02-05 Thread Devine, James
I wrote: the use of value concepts allows the understanding of the capitalist system as a totality. Lacking this understanding -- and more importantly, the ability to act on this understanding -- is one aspect of the anarchy of production, a necessary component of the existence of crises. Ok but

Re: Re: value vs. price

2002-02-05 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] you can't understand what Marx is talking about in CAPITAL if you don't understand his jargon and more importantly, his way of approaching the question, which is summarized by his phrase the law of value. This lack of

Re: value vs. price

2002-02-02 Thread miyachi
on 2/2/02 08:50 AM, Devine, James at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [was: RE: [PEN-L:22192] Re: RE: Re: re: re: Historical Materialism] Ian asks: If one can do the quantitative side of Marx without the value theory and achieve the same results as those who use the value theory, which side is

RE: Re: value vs. price

2002-02-02 Thread Devine, James
miyachi [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]writes: Sir Devine, James I am not a British lord, but a commoner (a better class of human being, BTW). your definition on price and value is incorrect. price is false appearance of a category of value product. I wasn't defining price or value. I was making

Re: value vs. price

2002-02-02 Thread Devine, James
I wrote: One way of summarizing this whole issue is as follows: (1) the distinction between value and price roughly corresponds to the orthodox distinction between social opportunity cost and opportunity cost to an individual. Both of these are quantitative. Ian writes: How do we get from *soc*

Re: value vs. price

2002-02-01 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] One way of summarizing this whole issue is as follows: (1) the distinction between value and price roughly corresponds to the orthodox distinction between social opportunity cost and opportunity cost to an individual. Both of