----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
> Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
>
> >Capitalists do not rent their labor power - their remuneration
is
> >based on their monopoly position i.e. celebrity status or
actual
> >control of the process of production - which in economics is
called
> >"rent."
>
> Rent being the monopolist's return above the "normal" rate of
profit.
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Oh that haunting absence between the first " and the second ". Oh how I miss the economic Atlantis of General Equilibrium theory...............NOT!
Ian