Re: Re: Re: Economics and Literature

[Brad DeLong]

>I'm amazed that the literary qualities of even chap. 1 of Capital 
>are being called into question. Section 4 is one of Marx's most 
>deservedly famous passages, the analysis of commodity fetishism, 
>which blends political economy, pyschology, philosophy, and cultural 
>analysis in dazzling ways. As much as I admire Keynes as a stylist, 
>nothing he wrote holds a candle to this.
>
>Doug

The Yale Humanities Major speaks: §4 may be dazzling to you literati 
but 'tain't hardly accessible to the toiling masses...

Brad DeLong