[PEN-L:11395] Re: Intuition in Math Reasoning

1997-07-23 Thread romain_kroes
It's relevant that Keynes doesn't condemn, here, the use of mathematics in economics (as for him, he rather liked to have recourse to them up to tautology), but that he implicitly accuses the lack of a conceptual basis in economics, so much so that "the back of the head" is nothing but a rough

[PEN-L:11306] Re: Ajit Sinha

1997-07-16 Thread romain_kroes
Ajit Sinha wrote: In my opinion, this is a common mistake commited by Marxist scholars. Since profit in capitalism is seen as resulting from the exploitation of labor, it does not mean that an economy with labor input being zero (i.e. 100% mechanized production process) would necessarily

[PEN-L:11249] [Fwd: Re: HES: DISC -- Polanyi]

1997-07-12 Thread romain_kroes
In my opinion, there is another reason why markets never had such an importance as the one which is given them today : from a macroeconomic point of vue, markets are only a second order mediation. In the National Accounts, markets appear only, and as a result, under the foreign trade balance