User talk:DrThompson
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Hi Dr. Thompson, I saw you mention economics on your user page. If you have academic qualifications or professional experience in this area, your assistance would be most appreciated at Talk:Capitalism, where several editors are in dispute over what an appropriate introduction to Capitalism should include. There's a lot to read on the talk page, but if you read the last section on the page (called, from memory, Compromise intro), that will give you an idea. If you don't have time, however, don't feel you have to look in. Many thanks, SlimVirgin 16:17, Mar 21, 2005 (UTC)
"Associative Economics" was not added by me (I'm the guy behind the Reaganomics bit). Are you sure it's vandalism? Drop me a line so I don't have to watch your talk page, please?-- Orborde 05:54, 13 May 2005 (UTC)
[edit] I guess this was just a mistake?
You put this in the Marxian article a while back:
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- Most economists no longer subscribe to the labor theory of value, which has been superseded by the Austrian theory of subjectivism. Subjectivism states that things do not have inherent value; they have value only insofar as people desire them.
I replaced it with:
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- Most economists no longer subscribe to the labor theory of value, which has been superseded by the Neoclassical theory of value, which defines value mainly as exchange rate.
That is correct, right? The mainstream economic definition of value is the Neoclassical definition based upon exchange rate, not the Austrian theory of subjectivism. The two aren't the same, because whereas Neoclassical economists would argue that a pound of beans for $10 is worth $10, that is, that the $10 is its objective value, an Austrian economist would argue that there is no such thing as an "objective" value. 71.246.228.43 08:31, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
