On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Ira Glazer <ira.glazer at gmail.com> wrote:
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> http://michael-hudson.com/2010/07/from-marx-to-goldman-sachs-the-fictions-of-fictitious-capital1/
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> *Classical economists developed the labor theory of value to isolate
> economic rent, which they defined as the excess of market price and income
> over the socially necessary cost of production (value ultimately reducible
> to the cost of labor). A free market was one free of such “unearned” income
> – a market in which prices reflected actual necessary costs of production
> or, in the case of public services and basic infrastructure, would be
> subsidized in order to make economies more competitive... *