Re: Re: Re: Re: closet Keynesians

2000-02-03 Thread Carrol Cox
Doug Henwood wrote: > Jim Devine wrote: > > >To me this suggests the possibility of Marx-Keynes syntheses: the > >holistic analysis of the capitalist mode of production of vol. I > >left out a lot of the important details of finance and the like, > >which can be filled in using content from the

Re: Re: Re: closet Keynesians

2000-02-03 Thread Doug Henwood
Jim Devine wrote: >To me this suggests the possibility of Marx-Keynes syntheses: the >holistic analysis of the capitalist mode of production of vol. I >left out a lot of the important details of finance and the like, >which can be filled in using content from the Keynesian tradition >(Minsky,

Re: Re: Re: closet Keynesians

2000-02-03 Thread Rob Schaap
>Timework Web wrote: > >>I would say that most people -who consider themselves Marxists- are closet >>Keynesians. > >What's a Marxist? What's a Keynesian? > >Doug A Keynesian reckons capitalism's troughs can usually be obviated and always ameliorated (to little worse than a sobering dip) by caref