Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: the expression "political economy"(fwd)

2000-04-10 Thread md7148
true. that is what I "meant"... Mine Ted wrote: >I didn't intend to suggest that Mine had used the phrase "bourgeois >thinker". What I was getting at was the idea that seemed implicit in her >question that Marshall and Keynes could not have radical ideas because >they >were not in some sense

Re: Re: Re: Re: the expression "political economy"

2000-04-09 Thread Jim Devine
Ted wrote: >For these purposes, the category "bourgeois thinker" is not merely not >helpful it's disabling since it prevents us from examining ideas with what >Keynes and Gadamer call "good will". Mine didn't use the phrase "bourgeois thinker," but I agree: one can learn from people like Keyne

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: the expression "political economy" (fwd)

2000-04-09 Thread phillp2
Mine wrote: > >However,as you > know, there are some Marxists in the Marxist tradition who uncritically > subcribe to the notions of "orthodox" economics and free market > capitalism. This, I would charecterize as economic determinism, has > interesting commonalities with liberal economics since

Re: Re: Re: Re: the expression "political economy" (fwd)

2000-04-08 Thread md7148
>In Canada, as Rod indicates, it has taken a very special meaning >as indicated in this quote from Wally Clement and Glen Williams, >edicated collection _The New Canadian Political Economy_. >"while political economy is based on a tradition that investigates >the relationship between economy

Re: Re: Re: Re: the expression "political economy"

2000-04-08 Thread phillp2
Michael wrote: > Usually today people use the term when they are writing are the margins of > neo-classical economics (that includes Buchanan). > I have always liked Branko Horvats definition of political economy as "a fusion of economic and political theory into one single social theory." I

Re: Re: Re: Re: the expression "political economy" (fwd)

2000-04-08 Thread md7148
>That is not the case in Canada. Here it is more usually associated with >the >left nationalist. very true point, Rod! I have always beleived that there is something interesting to look at in canadian leftism, eventhough canada is one of the core capitalist powers. Once, the left was associate

Re: Re: Re: Re: the expression "political economy"

2000-04-08 Thread Rod Hay
That is not the case in Canada. Here it is more usually associated with the left nationalist. Rod Michael Perelman wrote: > Usually today people use the term when they are writing are the margins of > neo-classical economics (that includes Buchanan). > > Barnet Wagman wrote: > > > The term 'int