Re: [OPE-L] Capital in General

[Fred Moseley <fmoseley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting Paul Bullock <paulbullock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Fred,
> 
> I can only repeat that I consider the terms S&D to belong to the surface
> realm of economics as expressed in market prices. It would deal with those
> many concerns that fall into the examination of competition itself and
> which
> see market prices moving around prices of production, if I can use that
> expression.
> 
> At the levels of analysis in the three vols of capital, (despite the fact
> that Marx always illustrates his points as far as it is possible, as
> appropriate,  given the stage of the argument he has reached), then the
> problem of realisation is usually not considered as such. I simply won't
> refer to this as treating S=D, its seems incorrect to me, and all that I
> have read in Marx seems to me to say ' we don't start here'.
> 
> That's it
> 
> Cheers Paul


Paul, thanks for your latest message and sorry for my delayed response
(it's been a hectic week).

I am happy to agree to disagree about the precise formulation of S and D, 
since I think we agree on my main point (don?t we?) - that Marx generally 
assumes no realization problem in the Volume 3 theory of the distribution of 
surplus-value, and therefore assumes that the total amount of surplus-value is 
taken as given, as determined by the prior theory of the production of surplus-
value.

Thanks again for the discussion.

Comradely,
Fred




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