Scarcity

[Forstater, Mathew]

1. I would have thought it was anthro 101 that there are completely different
conceptions of time under capitalism than under other modes of production, and
time is experienced and understood very differently in other societies.
(_Science as Culture_ 1993 or 1994 had a good article on capitalist time, and
Johannes Fabian's work, e.g., _Time and the Other_, for recent work in
anthropology).  Projecting one's own notion of time onto other cultures is
behind charges of 'irrationality', but perhaps that is also unproblematic?

2. Nell, e.g., has argued that 'allocating' resources is, ironically, one of the
most important thing that markets _don't_ do well (see, e.g., his _Making Sense
of A Changing Economy_).  What markets do do, is promote in technical
innovation, a very different matter indeed.

Mat