On 4/18/2012 11:57 AM, Eugene Coyle wrote:
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>       Can you give us some examples of the Gintis you mention?
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"I gave up on Marxian economics when I saw that the central idea of 
labor/labor-power could be handled as a principal-agent problem."

http://khufu.openlib.org/~tchecndg/archive/1999/0360.html

(See Ernesto Screpanti, The Fundamental Institutions of Capitalism, 
Chapter 1, for a discussion of how a capital-labor relationship  differs 
from a principle-agent relationship, that is, why Gintis might be wrong.)


In Chapter 3 of The Changing Face of Economics: Conversations with 
Cutting Edge Economists, David Colander, Richard P. F. Holt, and J. 
Barkley Rosser, Jr. there is an interview with Gintis. In it he is all 
about scientific truth and it's independence from politics.

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