| This question <335-5|55> overall <338|339-1> Franz: <338|340>. |
| Question 52: In [mecw29] 274 Marx writes “It is as if the different individuals had thrown their labor time together and allocated different portions of the labor time at their joint disposal to the various use values.” Why the formulation “It is as if?” Have they done it or haven't they? |
| [339] Franz: why ask why? Wight and inhumanity Wight wrote in [189] |
| In microecon 201, we learned nothing about the behaviors of individuals as they relate to economic life. |
| . . . businesses and individuals are seen as profit and utility maximizing agents. This is not how life really is. |
| What? utility maximization is behavior. |
| your 2nd sentence contradicts the 1st |
| Businesses and people have may other objective and motivations aside From self-fulfilling utility maximizing. If in fact we really lived in the kind of world described, it would be very inhumane. |
| Why? I will build my economy according to a Micro 201 textbook. Where is the inhumanity? Please explain. |
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