Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 09:41:55 -0500 From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood-AT-panix.com> Subject: Re: M-I: Constraints on Marxist discourse A nameless, ejected one wrote: >Oh, but I guess that >isn't important to you since the BLS doesn't calculate national income >using Marx's categories. Actually, it's the Bureau of Economic Analysis that computes the national income and product accounts. The Bureau of Labor Statistics, as its name implies, handles employment, earnings, price indexes, consumer expenditures, productivity, and the like. We vulgarians like to keep these things straight, because, as A.R. Ammons wrote, Matthew Arnold might pop out of the bushes reminding us to preserve the essential distinctions.... Doug --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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