Re: Don't Forget Mises -- and Dump the Third Way!
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Date: 08/31/04
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Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 07:00:51 GMT
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 20:50:33 -0400, Ron Allen <rallen2@bellsouth.net>
wrote:
>Courageous wrote:
> > Locational choices and development, while not a
> > physical thing, is still production. As are the
> > others.
>
>Ron Allen answers:
>In a slave economy, the masters choose the
>location where the slaves will labor.
You appear to be confusing the economic role of slave owner with that
of overseer. The slave owner as such does nothing but pocket rent,
like the landowner. Owner and overseer may or may not be the same
person, but their roles are certainly distinct.
>Given
>your reasoning, masters are as productive as
>slaves, only because the masters select the place
>or the site where productive labor is to be done.
Again, that is the overseer's role, not the owner's.
>Are you telling us that, in a slave economy, the
>fact that masters choose a location means that
>what they do is an act or activity of production?
IMO it is important to keep our eyes on the ball. The overseer's
skillful allocation of the slaves' labor to this or that employment
_is_ a contribution to production, just as an employer's allocation of
his employees' labor or a supervisor's allocation of his subordinates'
labor is. The fact that the property status of the slaves is immoral
and indefensible does not change the fact that the amount the slaves
produce can depend very much on the skill with which their labor is
allocated and supervised, including their maintenance and training,
the care taken of their health, etc. In this regard, the overseer,
even though he may also be the slave owner, is more productive than
the landowner, as the land needs no care or maintenance and is best
allocated by simply being let to the high bidder.
-- Roy L
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