Igor,
products are in fact, I believe, 'invaluable,' i.e., there is no possibility
(as conceived in classic economic theories) of finding their 'intrinsic'
value (based on material, work, knowledge or whatever). Their value is a
matter of convention. Therefore is economics something specific human. It
presupposes that we are open to a space of indeterminacy not only with
regard to what we do (our 'praxis' in Greek terms: with the question of
finding the right 'middle', Aristotle's 'mesotes') but also of what we
produce (our 'poiesis' in Greek terms; which means the process of finding
also the right 'middle' with regard also the human life 'as a whole', which
means that economics and ethics belong together...).
If we see economics like this, i.e., within the horizon of indeterminacy
then we are also free from any kind of 'dialectic' as well as of idealistic
value theories. Economics is thus not something that does not belong to the
very realm of the human (as stated sometimes by creating a contradiction
between ethics and economy), and it is not just 'humanistic' in the sense
that it could be based on a given 'measure'. The measure of economics is
nothing but the very space of indeterminacy as which we, humans live. At
least this is how I see it. Information takes place at the very moment in
which we start the process of 'fixing' a value.
cheers
Rafael
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