What is the wealths of nation by ________ all about?
“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their ___________. We address ourselves not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our necessities but of their advantage.”
self-interest
Adam Smith
What are the two laws of the market
It is possible that government will tell you this product should be just between this price range. Is that necessary? You let the _____________ determine the price and quantity of the product. Let people follow their _____________
invisible hand
self-interest.
Laws of the market are ____________ (no need the state to regulate the economy)
four things they do
self-regulating
Individual self-interests of similarly motivated individuals will result in ___________–
competition
Division of labor:
Wealth of nations (smith)
Market failures (free market – walang role yung government) (smith)
David Ricardo Principles of political economy and taxation
Capitalists
Capitalists
- Invest to make profit
- Capital is their contribution to the society
David Ricardo Principles of political economy and taxation
Landlords
Landlords
- Own land (contribution to economy)
- Rent/ differential rent (what they get from the economy; their share in the economy)
- Their interests are inimical to society (problem in the economy would be landlord and their interest)
David Ricardo Principles of political economy and taxation
workers
Workers:
- Addicted to the domestic delights of society (spend to what they like; they’re not able to save and therefore do not have money to invest)
- Contribution to economy (own labor, bodies); their share/output in economy is wage
- Natural price and market price (actual wage received by workers)
- Natural price (kailangan ng laborer at ng family niya to survive) of labor is that price which is necessary to enable the laborers (family survival), one with another, to subsist and to perpetuate their race (price: cost of living now)
- If the market price of labor is more than the natural price of labor, then our laborers would be happy. Gagastusin lang nila sa bagay na hindi mahalaga. They would think about the future – having another member of familyIf opposite, hindi sila masaya.
explain differential rent
May rent na binabayaran sa land, nagincrease ang population and food, kinakailangan nilang gagamit ng ibang lupa. Yung lupa nay un babayaran ng rent. Yung lupa nay un hindi makakapagproduce as much as before. Ang tawag doon ay differential rent. It will go to our land lords. Hindi nagbebenefit ang workers. If tumataas yung supply dapat bumababa yung presyo ng pagkain but tumataas siya dahil ginagamit na lupa ay yung hindi productive as before (mas madami kang iiinvest nap era)
Capitalists are not happy since kailangan nilang pataasin yung market price of labor. If they increase it, less profits for them. Less capital to invest in the economy.
who’s idea is comparative advantage?
ricardo
Hegel
not alienated
Marx: We are ____________ because we are no longer __________; we have to ______________ to resolve the alienation
not ourselves, free creators, change the world
(Adam smith: isang task lang gagawin mo – cut wires the whole day; for _________, that results to ___________. We can create many things but because of industrialization, we only create one thing. )
marx, alienation
what is self-alienation
Self-alienation is understanding what is happening to you and you don’t do anything about it.
Communist manifesto: Most of it are _______________
________ is cure for alienation
problems of capitalism
Communism
Feurbach and marx: we are alienated because of __________
Feuerbach: to cure ourselves of this alienation, we should accept that __________
Marx: man should not have ________________
religion
god is a projection of ourselves, that god is a creation of man
no other god but himself. This is true humanity incarnated in the communist man
Hegel
for every thesis, there is antithesis in the world of ideas
What are the four stages?
historical dialectical materialism
Primitive communism
- hunting/gathering
2. Pastoralism
- taking care of animals
3. Feudalism
- plants & animals (land ownership)
4. Capitalism
- bourgeoisie vs proletariat
5. Socialism
- removing elements of capitalism
- communism will emerge through it
6. Communism
- no economic classes/state
thesis is primitive communism (hunting and javelin stage (hunt food, run for food) – we are equals but we did not stay in the condition. Nagkaroon tayo ng antithesis. Take care of animals/yung mga kakainin mo. Second stage is the pastoralism – meron paring tao na naghuhunt ng food but dominant way ay taking care of food. Next is feudalism, taking care of plants for food (need ng lupa). Master, slave, landlords, peasants. Because of historical dialectical materialism, meron pa ring elements from previous stage. Next stage is capitalism. The most important means of production is capital. Gusto nila magkneel yung capitalism to communism (capitalism -> socialism (interstage) -> communism); capitalism bears the seeds of its destruction will be replaced by socialism (you do away with the vestiges of capitalism – tatanggalin mo yung capitalism) until it is replaced by communism
- The various stages in the economic order represent an advance in terms of exploitation from the various eras. All of them reveal a relationship of exploitation by the ruling group. There are no economic classes in communism.
- They were studying the fourth stage (capitalism)
______ and Surplus value
Marx
Labor has both use (how much you have produced – 6k dalawang chairs) and exchange values (wage given to you (actual) - 600): assumption is galing kay laborer yung materials
- The difference between use and exchange value is surplus value (6000-600)
- If the surplus value is kept by the capitalists, it is theft.
Exchange value – market price the same (David ricardo)
communist manifesto
Engels