More tedious metaethics

Michael Perelman michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Sun May 12 12:52:15 PDT 2002


Not quite, Brad, it can be destroyed. Marx even uses the term "devalorization."

On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 12:45:44PM -0700, Brad DeLong wrote:
> >>It's probably a good idea not to fetishize "value" as if it were
> >>some substance that ethical action intends to maximize.
> >
> >No one thinks value is a substance.
>
> Save Karl Marx, of course, who thought value was created by
> "productive labor", and could not be created or destroyed--but only
> transformed and transferred--thereafter...
>
>
>

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