Sunday, April 10, 2011

different employments

"The whole of the advantages and disadvantages of the different employments of labour and stock must, in the same neighbourhood, be either perfectly equal or continually tending to equality. If in the same neighbourhood, there was any employment evidently either more or less advantageous than the rest, so many people would crowd into it in the one case, and so many would desert it in the other, that its advantages would soon return to the level of other employments"
  --the original  market adam--

just labor and stock in the  same  neighborhood  how concise  L and  K

with that evil  triade of abstractions
                 pandora's box is prised open
and yet the shade of a dynamic races thru the tableau of equal outcomes

"continually tending to equality "

the driver of equity is the profits of arbitrage

note :
there is no innovation here no product differentiation  no  process innovation
no continual race to escape the morphing processs  from unique product to commodity
 nor any  sense of how well  the continuing race  to rub out profits closes the gap
between the transaction  price reality  with its   quasi rent surplus  and the  grail price
the true instantaneous as if all markets cleared edgeworth core  price set
the rule  of value  over the price of that commodity

 between the continual  relative movements among the prices of marketed  commodity products
the  lowering and risng  of  one against the other  and the gains from trade in any one commodity product

what if the system convulses if the general rate of profit passes zero
and as a result of that convulsion profits are restored
the comvulsion that is the final blow to the positivity of too many   quasi rent  profits
produces its opposite
the return ...with time and suffering of ...quasi rent profits of enterprise

and we no where speak of wage markets eh