Re: Re: Re: reparations

[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Child mortality is a case in point.  For example, even in the prosperous
United States, child mortality is extraordinarily high in places, such as
Harlem -- higher than in Bangladesh.  It is very low in prosperous areas.

My basic question, Brad, relates to this use of averages without an taking
into account the inequalities that they obscure.

Brad De Long wrote:

> >
> >another comment: the above suggests that perhaps capitalism has
> >_never_ produced a surplus-product. Rather, all of the surplus that
> >was spent on capitalist accumulation and rich people's luxuries and
> >the like was simply the result of _redistribution_ from other people.
>
> Then why is infant mortality these days so low?
>
> Brad DeLong

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Michael Perelman
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