RE: Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: Re: re: re: Historical Materialism

2002-02-10 Thread Devine, James
- From: Ken Hanly To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 2/9/02 6:04 PM Subject: [PEN-L:22680] Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: Re: re: re: Historical Materialism My fuzzy understanding of this is that the hard core of tautologies nevertheless supports if the theory is progressive a research program creating theories

Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: Re: re: re: Historical Materialism

2002-02-09 Thread Ken Hanly
role in peoples lives. Cheers, Ken Hanly - Original Message - From: Ian Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 6:24 PM Subject: [PEN-L:22358] Re: Re: Re: RE: Re: re: re: Historical Materialism - Original Message - From: Ken Hanly [EMAIL

Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: Re: Historical Materialism

2002-02-06 Thread Justin Schwartz
I don't accept GET. I'm basically a Robinsonian/Kaleckian institutionalist with a large dash of Austrian thrown in for spice. Must make for some interesting dinner parties But I don't see how saying I'm an institutionalist gets you off the hook here. That's not a value theory, and

Re: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: Re: Historical Materialism

2002-02-06 Thread Rakesh Bhandari
I don't accept GET. I'm basically a Robinsonian/Kaleckian institutionalist with a large dash of Austrian thrown in for spice. In her essay on Marxian economics, Joan Robinson attempts to point Marx's crisis theory in the direction of the kind of underconsumptionism that Sweezy was

Re: Re: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: Re: Historical Materialism

2002-02-06 Thread Justin Schwartz
I don't accept GET. I'm basically a Robinsonian/Kaleckian institutionalist with a large dash of Austrian thrown in for spice. In her essay on Marxian economics, Joan Robinson attempts to point Marx's crisis theory in the direction of the kind of underconsumptionism that Sweezy was

Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: Re: Historical Materialism

2002-02-06 Thread Michael Perelman
The measurement of the capital stock is in impossibility. Franklin Fisher once worked up the requirements for aggregation. Can't be done! The inability to calculate real depreciation presents another barrier. I mentioned this in passing before in questioning how seriously we should take

Re: Re: Re: RE: Re: re: re: Historical Materialism

2002-02-04 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: Ken Hanly [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 10:13 PM Subject: [PEN-L:22213] Re: Re: RE: Re: re: re: Historical Materialism I don't understand this stuff about the observational consequences of theories at the level

RE: Re: Re: RE: Re: re: re: Historical Materialism

2002-02-02 Thread Devine, James
thanks. I needed that. -- Jim Devine Ken Hanly writes: I don't understand this stuff about the observational consequences of theories at the level of generality of the theory of value. What if the labor theory of value is part of the central core of Marxism ? If that is so then in itself it

Re: Re: RE: Re: re: re: Historical Materialism

2002-02-01 Thread Ken Hanly
I don't understand this stuff about the observational consequences of theories at the level of generality of the theory of value. What if the labor theory of value is part of the central core of Marxism ? If that is so then in itself it does not have any specific empirical implications period.