Date: 	Fri, 24 Nov 1995 12:58:15 -0300
From: jinigo-AT-inscri.org.ar (Juan Inigo)
Subject: Re: Note to Juan


John Ernst writes

>We seem to be crossing paths in this thing.  At any
>rate,  as you will see I will not respond directly to
>your 11/23 post.  The new ground you cover which,
>at this point, we can regard as a side issue is
>worth mentioning.   Do you really want to say that
>we can not speak of increases in the real wage for
>the overall economy from year to year?  Do you
>really want to say that we can not speak of increases
>in productivity for the overall economy from year to
>year?   Maybe I am not reading your post correctly
>but I'd like some clarification.

John, what I have really said again and again is that I want _you_ to tell
_me_, since _you_ claim that it is possible to construct a model including
a relation between increases in technical composition and in productivity,
in what UNITS do you measure those increases. (To avoid wasting more time,
please notice that in my 11/23 post I have shown that units of weight do
not fit concerning machines and tools with respect to technical
composition, since exactly the same technical change in those elemnts would
be seen as an increase or a decrease in this composition depending on the
materials they are made of). To repeat myself:

>a) The concrete "cannons/candies 4%" case is solved by adding increases in
>productivity measured in units of ... ?

>a) The increase in the technical composition of capital is measured in units
>of ... ?

Is it clear enough now?

Juan Inigo
jinigo-AT-inscri.org.ar



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