Devine, James wrote:
BTW, I find religious attitudes all the time in economics. For example,
there's the worship of the market (the U of Chicago) or the worship of
mathematics for its own sake (UC-Berkeley). But I think it's best to attack
these faiths on the basis of facts, logic, and
Devine, James wrote:
I wrote: Marx uses the word law differently than Justin does. Marx's
laws are dialectical, non-deterministic. But many interpret his ideas in
Justin's terms, proving that Marx was a determinist.
Justin writes: How do you get deterministic out of precisely formulated
Michael Hoover wrote:
the point is to change it...
analytical marxists attempt to explain collective action in terms of rational
calculations of self-interested individuals rather than understanding that history
is shaped by social classes (collective entities in parlance of rational
This is a whole article, but as it's a critical survey of many such it may
serve your purpose:
S. Deraniyagala and B. Fine
New trade theory versus old trade policy: a continuing enigma
Cambridge Journal of Economics, Vol 25 No 6 Nov 2001
Fred
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I am not suggesting
I don't see it as a serious problem. Speculation about the effect of a
central bank's interest rate policies and the likely timing of the next
Minsky crisis and the tendency of the rate of profit to fall, and most other
such questions, all gets boring pretty quickly. It's hard to have an ongoing
on.
But maybe I'm just out of date. So please expand.
Fred Guy
Greg Schofield wrote:
My point is that historically this is not so, that the level of socialisation
already established by the bourgeoisie, effectively means there is no great day when
leading elements of capital must be socialisied
Am I missing something coded in the language here? Would anyone on this list
expect redistribution to happen without struggle? Those sorts are all on Santa
Claus-L.
And, putting what was a discussion of world living standards and carrying
capacity into terms of class struggle simplifies the
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Class struggle won't solve the problem of global warming in the near
future (supposing the near future to be the next couple of decades),
nothing else will for that matter. However, without class
struggle, the working class won't be *even* in a position to
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
*Who else* do you think have the *potential* to become a collective
historical agent to transform the structures of production,
distribution, consumption in an ecologically sustainable direction,
if not the working class? Surely not the bourgeoisie. Nor do
Mark Jones wrote:
As
for K-waves in general, Trotsky's criticism of Kondratiev was right (altho
clearly there are some periodicities involved with infrastructure investment
for example, as I mentioned earlier in connection with Kuznets). Trotsky
said:
One can reject in advance the
to state their views as views, while Brad gets constructed as
a representative of something, and abused for it. I don't enjoy reading
that, I think it's a style that has probably driven most dissenting
voices either into lurking or off the list entirely, and I wish it would
stop.
Fred Guy
others from jumping in.
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Jim Devine writes:
I'm not convinced. The Fordist production techniques that prevailed
before the
neoliberal or Post-Fordist era involved large economies of scale. Though
the companies
benefited from protection (and it seems to be true that international
direct investment
used to be mostly
ould still be on offer.
But this comes back to models (socialist or otherwise): if that deal
isn't working, what comes next? If I want a return to the 1950s, I can
watch movies.
--
Fred Guy
Department of Management
School of Management and Organizational Psychology
Birkbeck College
Malet St.
Londo
., European) air quality standards can be
vetoed by one country simply shows that the E.U. has not progressed
beyond the Thatcherite vision of a free trade area.
Fred Guy
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