Wages (response to Tom W)

Charles Brown CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us
Tue Feb 22 09:39:10 PST 2000



>>> Rakesh Bhandari <bhandari at mmp.Princeton.EDU> 02/22/0
>1. What are the implications of building a theory on the proposition that
>productive workers in rich countries regularly receive part of surplus
>value (or not)? What are we better or worse able to see with a theory
>constructed this way?

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CB: For them to "receive part of the surplus" , their wage would have to be high enough that they were not exploited at all, no ? Wouldn't they have to receive the full value of the commodities they produce plus a little more ?

CB



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