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Phil Kraft
Departments of Sociology
and Management Information Systems
SUNY Binghamton
Binghamton, NY
I have been teaching history of economic thought using E.K. Hunt's
book as a text. I really like the book but I think that students
find it really difficult reading. Maybe it is just the students
at WSU but when they read the quotes of the great economists
they don't understand the English. In
Hellow everyone. I an undergrad (soon to be a grad in geography at UC
Berkeley or U of Washington) and I'd like to know more about the work of
pregressive economists and feminist economists. I am also looking for
information on gender discrimination in lending/credit issues. Does
anyone know
I have been teaching history of economic thought using E.K. Hunt's
book as a text. I really like the book but I think that students
find it really difficult reading. Maybe it is just the students
at WSU but when they read the quotes of the great economists
they don't understand the English. In
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No one asked anyone to pledge allegiance to any quote, though the MR folks
have been known to dismiss people who disagree with them as "not really
Marxists." In this case, however, I think
Doug,
I agree with you about this: I think Karl's definition of crisis is
better than the "permanent crisis" one. One big problem with
all crisis theory, of either sort, is the presumption that crises
actually can mean the fall of capitalism. But crises, as we
academics are wont to say, may be
It seems probable to me that the paradox of their being an apparent
net liability of the G7 plus other major industrial countries refered
to by Altvatar might in part be due to mere statistical errors.
If it were the monetary assets of the international banking system
that explained it, this
"Permanent crises do not exist." Either meaningless,
as nothing is permanent. Or dead wrong, as capital has been
in crisis since the beginning. Or hopelessly dated, as
the process of "accumulation through crisis "has been
in effect since at least the mid-1970s, perhaps late 1960s.
Check
Hellow everyone. I an undergrad (soon to be a grad in geography at UC
Berkeley or U of Washington) and I'd like to know more about the work of
pregressive economists and feminist economists. I am also looking for
information on gender discrimination in lending/credit issues. Does
anyone know
Rudy F. writes [I've edited a bit in places, for brevity]:
...I have two questions about Hunt's treatment of
Walras and general equilibrium theory.
The first question is pedagogical and related to the graphical
treatment on pp 335-337. In his first example, Hunt shows
what happens to
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