world technological rent

Thu, 26 Nov 1998 11:56:37 -0500
Gernot Kohler (gernot.kohler@sheridanc.on.ca)

Professor Cakmak mentions "world technological rent" (see, wsn, working
papers, Cakmak). I am wondering how that relates to "gains from unequal
exchange" and "global surplus-value". A book by Fred Moseley has
measurements of U.S. surplus value, but I have not come across anything
similar for "global surplus-value" or "world technological rent". Is anyone
aware of literature which may have a definition and/or statistical
estimates of "global surplus-value" (as opposed to national surplus-value)
or "world technological rent"? The talk about global polarizaion suggests
that, possibly, the rates of these quantities may have risen, rather than
fallen in the last twenty years (??). From a Keynesian point of view I am
also wondering how that would relate to global I and global S.

--gk

gernot.kohler@sheridanc.on.ca
oakville, canada