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SAVINGS, INVESTMENT. AND ECONOMIC CALCULATION
The concqx of -capital" must be dtsongutshed ftom the concept of
capital goods" It is unpowible to think and to deal vkith the problems of
. apital goods without using and rrfemng to the concepts which \%r have
developed in the comphcated modem syuem of capital calcubnon. Capital
^'bletti is how to
riuintam or to ptrservr the amount of capital asaiUHc and hoxs to a\"oid
consuming the available capital goods %vithout rrpUcing thcin The
f>r»>blem 1% how not to consume more, or if ptnsiMr. hem to coiuuinc Ics*.
dun the amount of nrwiy pntduced products It is the pn>blcni of capital
preservauon. nuinietunce. and of course o< UKirastng the capital avaibblc.
Under some ctrruimtaiKes. it ts povuMe to deal with this problem
u ithout any special calcubtKsn or computation If a farmer continues to
prtiduce in the same way and if the mrtht>ds of ccmsiruction and method
< t lis'tng hasm't changed, he can esiinuie his condition because he an
< \taNtsh compariuMis in physical and btttlagual lernu—twxt barm are
inorr than one barn, a do/en head tsf cattle t% iiMirr than iss-o uns-s. and so
i>n. Uui such umpte methocK of iomputaiuni *tv iinutficicni in ^n
rconomic system in which there is change and prugrrs% KrpUcrinent may
not be in the same form as the facti>rs which are u«cd up Diesel engines
itiay be substituted ft»t strain engines. At\A u) on Krpbtetncni and iiuin-
trnance of capital under such londitiofu rr^uirr a inrtluMl ot computation
and calcubtion which can only be figurrd in term* c»l monc>- Ihc various
physical and external factors a( production cannot be compared in any
»ther way than (mm the point is( \icsv of the scrsnce* the>' render to men.
jlcubted in terms ol mones
It ^%-a% one of the tiirubnsental errt>rs of Ari^tiHlc that he beliescd that
in exchanges the thinp which urre exchanged inuvt base the umc value.
Since the da>*s ol' Aristotle. fc»r tssxj or three ihouvind vrars. the vainc error
has pirsMiled again and again, leachng great thinker*, at \srll as *iniple men.
astray. The same error appears in the fini pages o\ Marx* lyas Kapiial,
making evervthmg Marx uid about these problem* useless. Thi* error was
repeated esm much bter in the M*Titing* of Henri Bergsc^n |1H59-1941|.
the eimnent Ftrnch philosopher.
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