I like what you are doing with the medical analogy. I am not sure that the time constraints at the conference will allow me to expand on it.
If I did, I would go on to the way that capitalist medicine concentrates on the individual relationship, like to economist focuses on the transaction. But capitalism as a disease is a nice touch. > > As for the medical analogy: even the best doctors, thus who wholeheartedly > support, and engage their patients, are constrained in their practice of > medicine [wish I could italicize "practices"] by the demands, terms, limits > to reproduction of the economy. > > Good doctors cannot overcome those limitations by engaging, involving their > patients in their own treatment. They cannot "cure" social illnesses > through individual contact, no matter how numerous those individual contacts > can be. There is in fact a real material need for the abolition of > capitalism in order to actually maintain, enhance the public health, social > health. > > Think the same applies to good, and really good, economists. > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com ________________________________________________ YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
