This chapter was a real slog for me, but I had a few take-aways that I thought were actually very interesting to think about - especially in terms of how economists not only think about the world but communicate about the economy to lay people and policy makers. Marx writes so differently from the modern economist and his ideas and assumptions are as far from modern economic discourse as the intricate forest ecosystem is from the laboratory petri dish. Now, economics is devoted to value as being defined by marginal costs and benefits - the intersections of supply and demand - it takes some work to dislodge these ideas from my own mind enough to engage seriously with Marx.
He he he he he... You have to transform yourself into a German phillosophy Ph.D. of the 1840s in order to have even a chance of this chapter singing to you...
He he he he he... You have to transform yourself into a German phillosophy Ph.D. of the 1840s in order to have even a chance of this chapter singing to you...