calling in loans

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Aug 26 15:44:39 PDT 2002


No, I read the Cambridge Controversy book and some other stuff some years ago. But I'm not persuaded that mutual determinations are fatally flawed - aren't lots of things in social life like that?

Doug

Michael Perelman wrote:


>Wow. It took economists until 1960 to figure that out. Well, Sraffa began
>in the 20's but only published in 60.
>
>On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 06:26:38PM -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
>> Michael Perelman wrote:
>>
>> >The importance of reswitching is that it shows that the marginal
>> >productivity of capital is invalid as a macroeconomic concept.
>>
>> Because of the circularity problem? How can the value of capital be
>> determined by the value of output, and simultaneously the value of
>> output by the value of capital?
>>
>> Doug
>
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>Michael Perelman
>Economics Department
>California State University
>Chico, CA 95929
>
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>E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu



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