Marx and Temporalism- a tutorial 5 of 10

This is a workshop on the Temporal Single System Interpretation (TSSI) of Marx's value theory. It was recorded in November of 2009 at the Rethinking Marxism conference in Amherst Mass. The presenters are Andrew Kliman and Alan Freeman, two of the leading figures in the TSSI. The TSSI aims to show that by viewing Marx's value theory through a temporal lens the claims by Marx's opponents that his value theory is inconsistent are refuted.

I have discussed the TSSI in my video "What Transformation Problem?". I have also posted videos of Kliman and Freeman speaking at the 2009 Left Forum and a panel on the economic crisis at the 2009 Rethinking Marxism conference.

I apologize for the sound quality of this video. The conference center had a noisy ventilation system that left a loud "whirring" on all the video. I did by best to minimize the background noise but it was hard to do so without compromising the audibility of the speakers.

Kliman's website:
http://akliman.squarespace.com/

Freeman's website:
http://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/pfr102.htm

See my blog for the slides from these presentations and more info:
http://kapitalism101.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/marx-and-temporalism-a-tutorial/

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[thesmokingfrog]

I seems to me that what those economist meant with the metaphor of 'center of gravity' is the notion of attractor (as Kurz & Salvador say int he quote) in chaos theory rather than the equilibrium price acts like the physical gravity.

Then again, a 'chaos theory' approach would require to drop any 'simultaneism'. that's because i think that, being that the case, it is unfair to equate it with the others interpretations of the 'equilibrium price' because attractors are not stationary equilibriums