Re: Development of productive Forces - Questions

[Adam Rose <adam@xxxxxxxx>]

>
> The above department schema, I believe, began with the publication of
> Sweezy's _The Theory Of Capitalist Development_ (1942) which built on the
> Bortkiewicz (1907) "solution to the transformation problem."
>
> Of course, many other authors have suggested the use of the three
> department reproduction schemes. Rosa Luxemburg, for instance,
> proposed that Department 3 should be for the production of the money
> commodity, gold (which Marx had included in Dept. 1). However,
> the use of 3 departments, as distinct from 2, was not pioneered by Marx.
>
> Jerry

But Marx did talk about production for the luxury consumption of the ruling 
class
separately from Departments I + II , didn't he ? And he specifically mentions
this as a potential counter vailing tendency to the falling rate of profit, 
doesn't
he ?

Adam

Adam Rose
SWP
Manchester
UK


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