Re: RE: Re: Re: Re: RE: Re: RE: RE: Estimating Surplus

["Ian Murray" <seamus2001@xxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Eric Nilsson" <enilsson@xxxxxxxxx>
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Surplus


> Doug wrote,
> >
> > I was just citing the convention of the NIPAs. Conceptually, the
> > people who make up households have to be the producers and
recipients
> > of everything, since corps are just legal fictions, no?
>
> It is a fiction that corporations are "quasi-persons." Regardless of
that,
> corporations are the major sites of surplus generation and
decision-making
> for what is to be done with the surplus in modern capitalist
economies. I
> wonder the extent to which the assertion that households have to be
> producers/recipients is due to the requirements of methodological
> individualism.
>
> eric

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Households are suppliers/producers of labor power, no?

Ian