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- Jobs, Liberty and the Bottom Line
- Time on the Ledger: Social Accounting for the “Goo...
- Intermediate Goods and Duplication
- The Long Term Problem of Full Employment
- The Source and Remedy of the National Difficulties...
- Grundrisse: "Capital (like property) rests on prod...
- Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844: "W...
- McCulloch on Combination Laws
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- Thinking Along the Right Lines
- The Problem with "The Problem of Social Cost"
- State and Prospects of Manufactures
I read. There's a lot to get through here and most of it requires extended consideration. This makes apposite comments difficult for me.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Arkady.
ReplyDeleteI read. This is not my field of expertise, so I need more processing time than most. If I don't comment, it's because my contributions add little.
ReplyDeletei just read JLBL (jobs...) in about 15 minutes (i was also multitasking---so i may have missed some things).
ReplyDeletei notice the solution seems to be on p 168. same solution as others have proposed more or less.
i didnt see any reference to say pat devine, parecon, bookchin, brooks farm, thoreau, anarchosyndicalism, coucil communism, e f shumaker, the right to be lazy, and numerous others (eg p devine's fave) etc.
so the issue of reading could be proposed by those people too---do you?
on NPR today some prof was almost crying because modern e-books and twitter mean young people dont read the 'classics'. she feels we need these 'great books' to be 'contemplative' etc. (though a critic might argue she just is justifying her theocratic buerocracy).
i did note there may be some issues regarding 'gender confusion in children' in the proposed economy---how will we get a cold war if we share chores and get a 4 hour day?
i noticed mrzine seems to have deleted the comments on the piece on 'double entry'. however, i took a glance at the 'grundisse' of marx, or a version thereof, and as i suspected, his solution is the same, though like marx today, noone would put it that way (any more than anyone who writes a calculus book today would start with newton or leibniz---the termonology is diffrent from fluxions or double entry or whatever aggregation that is).
marx from what i gather actually is much more up to date (70's style); but i am of the view that his 'on alienation' is (one of ) the first papers in behavioral econ---the rest are more or less 'footnotes' or to be charitable further developments (h simon, etc.)
maybe the problem of history is that you get swamped in it, such that you remain mired in it. but hey, like those articles in the sociological j's cited in mrzine, which are 'on point', you can get a job writing history---which may be an 8 hour day but a more pleasant one than most. paid conferences, status, etc.
(also that concept---form determines content is pretty familiar. as they (ishi) say don't write it down. blog it!!! ))
i do note JLBL is from month 2. in sciences generally things are rebutted and obsolete in 1 or 2 weeks (or possibly at the same time) create an industry. so i wonder if maybe there is new version.
in general, there is some question whether reading anything is really valuable, and the concept of 'dialogue' (eg parecon, social indicators, participatory budgeting) i think mostly is or becomes a front for creating authorities (which is why people like Stirner refused the idea, though of course that just generates indirect accounting of the 'gift economy form'.
i'm down with the gift economy (mauss, graeber) which is totally voluntary----if people give me a gift (cash) i give them one back (unyielding solidarity and devotion comparable to that given by a squirrel if you throw it a peanut).
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