Re: Was Primitive Accumulation
On Dec 11, 2006, at 10:55 PM, tfast wrote:
Does for example Shaikh’s work which transforms national account data into Marxist aggregates reveal something
interesting even though it implicitly relies on the basic Marxian view that
output and thereby profit ultimately originates in labour?
Well yeah, good question, does it? I remember finishing the Shaikh/
Tonak book and asking, So what? What have they proved? What does
their method reveal that can’t be revealed with bourgeois national
accounts stats? I couldn’t come up with an answer. Can someone help me?
Doug