{"id":9306,"date":"2013-07-24T05:00:56","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T09:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/?p=9306"},"modified":"2013-07-21T09:28:48","modified_gmt":"2013-07-21T13:28:48","slug":"a-theory-of-value-in-the-swiss-family-robinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/9306","title":{"rendered":"A Theory of Value in &#8220;The Swiss Family Robinson&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/SwissFamilyRobinson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9315\" alt=\"SwissFamilyRobinson\" src=\"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/SwissFamilyRobinson.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Much like the content of Monday&#8217;s post, this has been in my &#8220;to-blog&#8221; file ever since I went on sabbatical in Belgium in 2009-2010 and read <a title=\"The Swiss Family Robinson\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Family-Robinson-ROBINSON-May-01-2007-Paperback\/dp\/B007M86PUC\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Swiss Family Robinson<\/em><\/a>, a book rich in social science content.<\/p>\n<p>The following is from the original 1816 English translation, chapter 18. The emphasis is mine.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As we walked along, Fritz asked me if this handsome shell was of the kind so much valued in Europe for making into boxes, combs, &amp;c.? and if it was not a pity to use it for a water-tub?<\/p>\n<p>I replied that in our deserted situation <strong>the utility of a thing formed its greatest, and indeed only value. According to this way of reasoning then, were your water-tub of diamonds, it would be of no more worth to us than the rudest stone, if in such a form as to be able to contain water.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much like the content of Monday&#8217;s post, this has been in my &#8220;to-blog&#8221; file ever since I went on sabbatical in Belgium in 2009-2010 and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/9306\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Theory of Value in &#8220;The Swiss Family Robinson&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-miscellaneous","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gPg8-2q6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9306"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9311,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9306\/revisions\/9311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}