Re: Henwood/Wray on Cranks

[Charles Anderson <chasna@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gregoire de Nowell (ci-devant) wrote:


> cranks have their piece of the action.  And who knows, every now
> and then you might learn something.  I, for example, have been
> working on a theory that translates labor theory of value into
> thermal caloric nutritional equivalents, where the basic unit of
> measurment is the banana split.  I could never have gotten there
> without Blumenstock.

You might refer to "The Economic History of World Population" by Carlo
M. Cipolla for a more serious application of this approach.

Chas