One time I went to Davis to meet with Nancy Breen. We attended a talk about Elster.
He
spoke with great authority about Marx, even though he was wildly mistaken much of the
time. It was very frustrating to sit back and hear him spout such nonsense.
Justin Schwartz wrote:
> >
>
> Oh, come on, Sam. Elster can't lay a hand on Kolokowski as a scholar or an
> interpreter of Marx: K's readings are always possible, while Elsters' are
> often just obtuse or perverse. On the other side, Elster isn't anti-Marxist;
> he wasn't trying to construct a tombstone, but to do develop and
> reconstitute the tradition. --jks
>
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
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