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- From: cbbrowne@csi.uottawa.ca (Christopher Browne)
- Subject: Re: On minimum wages
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.203017.6434@csi.uottawa.ca>
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- Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Ottawa
- References: <1993Jan26.201903.19780@sni.ca> <1993Jan27.034716.12266@ee.ubc.ca> <93027.133549SPRAGGEJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 20:30:17 GMT
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- In article <93027.133549SPRAGGEJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> John G. Spragge <SPRAGGEJ@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> writes:
- >Respect does not, therefore, proceed from a recognition of economic
- >value. It proceeds from recognition of shared humanity.
-
- But this still leaves the question, how shall we determine economic
- value?
-
- If (as you suggest), we ought to deny that the "value" of human labour
- can be determined using economic means, then that suggests that there
- is NO valid evaluation of wages, and that a robber baron's guess at
- the correct wages is as good as whatever you might propose.
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