Re: marginalism

[Harry Veeder <eo200@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Barkley Rosser <rosserjb@xxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 13:40:35 -0500
> To: Harry Veeder <eo200@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, post keynesian thought
> <pkt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: marginalism
>
> I don't think so.  "Precious" to me
> either means "very valuable" in an
> economic sense or having some kind
> of profound emotional significance,
> e.g. Gollum going on about the Ring
> of Power in the Lord of the Rings as
> his "Precious" (said with an anguished
> hiss, for those not acquainted with same).
> There are certainly "resources" out
> there that are neither, being very
> abundant and of little emotional content
> to anybody.  Is gravel "precious"?
> Barkley Rosser

It can be precious. It doesn't matter if it is "abundant"
or "scarce".
Harry

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