Back to AtD. 'human capital'? p.895

[Mark Kohut]

A pox on both metals, sez TRP I guess......just a little tableaux to show
how "the business of America is business" as Coolidge (?) said........
 
And how even Dally, a minor 'actress' is a child of gold & silver....
Not just the Traverses and Vibes...........

From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>; "pynchon-l at waste.org" <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Cc: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com> 
Sent: Monday, June 4, 2012 8:53 AM
Subject: Re: Back to AtD. 'human capital'? p.895


Thanks paul and alice for proper framing....I think of 'surplus value' (as well as diminishing returns)
as key Marxist-like concepts.......................
 
But yes, it all goes back to other origins....

From: Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>
To: pynchon-l at waste.org 
Sent: Monday, June 4, 2012 7:32 AM
Subject: Re: Back to AtD. 'human capital'? p.895

On 6/3/2012 5:01 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:
> Dally acting The Spirit of Bimetallism....
> "What had they been like as girls, Supply, Demand, Surplus Value,
> Diminishing
> Returns?"...."how she'd come to be a child of gold and silver?"
> TRP brings in Marxist-like terms to describe Dally thinking about her
> eclectic hard-scrabbling
> life .....without 'slow, wood rhythms'.............

Having an allegorical sculpture "Surplus Value" in a "capitalist temple" is kind of whack.  The other figures personify classical and neoclassical economic concepts, not specifically Marxist, though Marx made use of them too, (most notably the law of diminishing returns)

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