[lbo-talk] Was Primitive Accumulation

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Dec 12 13:02:28 PST 2006


On Dec 11, 2006, at 10:55 PM, tfast wrote:


> Does for example Shaikh's work which transforms
> national account data into Marxist aggregates reveal something
> interesting
> even though it implicitly relies on the basic Marxian view that
> output and
> thereby profit ultimately originates in labour?

Well yeah, good question, does it? I remember finishing the Shaikh/ Tonak book and asking, So what? What have they proved? What does their method reveal that can't be revealed with bourgeois national accounts stats? I couldn't come up with an answer. Can someone help me?

Doug



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