Doug wrote:
> There are reams of quotes from British factory inspectors, Economist
editorials, Parliamentary testimony of senior bankers, observations of
the way the Bank of England works, etc. etc. That's rather empirical it
seems to me.
Of course, Marx was a serious scholar, and any theoretical account of capitalism has to have solid empirical evidence.
But Carrol's point is that _Capital_ isn't a book about English capitalism. It's a theoretical account of capitalism. As Marx says, he was presenting "the inner organisation of the capitalist mode of production, in its ideal average, as it were."