[PEN-L:3950] Re: Re: Creeping repression

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Subject: [PEN-L:3950] Re: Re: Creeping repression
From: Brad De Long <delong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 08:30:47 -0800

>Gene's post about time is important because the Dallas Fed approach
>represents such a common gloss.  Manufactured goods generally costs less
>than they did a half century ago.  Is that because of capitalism or
>technological advances?

Karl Marx's answer would be that it was because of capitalism--that under
no previously-existing mode of production had society provided sufficient
incentives for either capital accumulation or technological advance...

Brad DeLong

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Thread context:
- [PEN-L:3953] Re: Re: Re: Alabama -- fwd article, MScoleman Sun 28 Feb 1999, 16:57 GMT
- [PEN-L:3952] Re: Postmodernist Marxism, MScoleman Sun 28 Feb 1999, 16:48 GMT
  - [PEN-L:3957] Postmodernist Marxism, Louis Proyect Sun 28 Feb 1999, 18:28 GMT
    - [PEN-L:3961] Re: Postmodernist Marxism, Doug Henwood Mon 01 Mar 1999, 00:11 GMT
- [PEN-L:3950] Re: Re: Creeping repression, Brad De Long Sun 28 Feb 1999, 16:44 GMT
  - [PEN-L:3955] Marx and technical change, Michael Perelman Sun 28 Feb 1999, 17:28 GMT
- [PEN-L:3948] Re: Say it ain't so, Max, Doug Henwood Sun 28 Feb 1999, 15:56 GMT
  - [PEN-L:3949] RE: Re: Say it ain't so, Max, Max Sawicky Sun 28 Feb 1999, 16:15 GMT
    - [PEN-L:3951] getting out of hand, Doug Henwood Sun 28 Feb 1999, 16:46 GMT

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