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Very amusing, Alan. But it seems to me that you miss
the point. Imagine that the planks on the ship can
think and choose, as you yourself do when you finger
out your email. Would the ship be a ship? Or would it
be a construct of the thinking and choosing plank
leader who employed the thinking and choosing planks
for a wage?
The neoclassical firm is a puzzle indeed, albeit not
in the context of the marginal productivity theory of
distribution. It becomes a puzzle only when one shifts
the focus away from consumer sovereignty and toward
the issue of how distinctly human actors view what
they are doing. When one makes this shift, he
recognizes a more robust definition of the firm. The
firm, he recognizes, is as an employment compact
between a thinking and choosing employer and a
thinking and choosing set of employees.
Don't you agree that heat seeking missiles,
fly-seeking frogs, and deer-seeking wolves are very
much different from profit seeking prospective
employers and employees. (Not to mention fun-seeking
HES members.)
Cheers
Pat Gunning
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