Re: On Randy Groves big points (fwd)

that is true. we are talking about "capitalist markets" here.
historically, there are non-capitalist markets too (i mean, prior to the
emergence of the world capitalist system) 

"capitalist markets" have never been a part of human existence. they are
the products of particular social relations under particular historical
circumstances...

Mine

>On markets. I am not sure that markets have always been a part of human
>existence, but I did not think we were talking about markets in the
>abstract, transhistorically. I thought we were talking about *capitalist*
>markets. Moreover, it seems reasonable to characterize markets as
>inventions in the sense that they are the products of organized human
>activity. To deny this elevates markets to a suprahistorical status.

>Andy Austin