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> On Dec 11, 2006, at 10:55 PM, tfast wrote:
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> > 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
Why don't we ask him directly ourselves: shaikh at newschool.edu <shaikh at newschool.edu>