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- From: jwh@citi.umich.edu (Jim Howe)
- Subject: Re: Clinton on Economics (transcript of speech)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.195335.2634@lsa.umich.edu>
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- Organization: IFS Project, University of Michigan
- References: <seavn2i00WBKQ3vZ1H@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 19:53:35 GMT
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- In article <seavn2i00WBKQ3vZ1H@andrew.cmu.edu>, ss9o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Stephen Sorensen) writes:
- |> Excerpts from netnews.sci.econ: 26-Aug-92 Re: Clinton on Economics (t..
- |> by Jim Howe@citi.umich.edu
- |> > How about a self-service ice machine? It is a machine that takes
- |> > water and produces ice. Customers put money in the machine and
- |> > get ice in return. The 'labor' to produce the product (ice) was
- |> > performed by the machine, not a person. Wealth was created because
- |> > a desireable commodity was produced which did not previously exist.
- |>
- |> And where did the machine come from ?
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- Who cares? The point being made is that new wealth is produced
- from a capital investment, i.e. the purchase of an ice machine.
- The ice machine itself represents wealth produced by some other
- entity. The fact that A produced B and C uses B to produce D
- does not mean that A is producing D.
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