Marxist and Bourgeois Categories, was Re: GDP is unscientific and unfair for poor people.

[Carrol Cox]

I would like to see more discussion of the intersection and
overlapping of bourgeios and marxist economic categories,
but I don't quite see why it has (at least to begin with) to
be cast in terms of who does what worse.

Carrol

Fabian Balardini wrote:


> On Tue, 31 Aug 1999 17:24:23   Doug Henwood wrote:>


>>Marxists love to play with the categories of national income
>>accounting, but I can't imagine any who'd denounce the general
>>project as fraudulent crap.


>so what is your alternative to handle data then????


>You are the one who prefer burgeois categories as opposed to marxist
>categories derived from them, as you have made clear a while ago on the
>exchange on productive labor.  This means that you believe everything is
> fine with the Keynesian categories and the theoretical framework behind
>the measurement of GDP.


>I don't understand why you now turn around and accuse Marxist
>economists of 'toying' around with these categories when you are
>doing the same or worse  because you are not even challenging these
>categories.