Gerry this information is quite interesting. Do you know some discussion about economic interest related to academic interest? I read, some years ago, an interesting paper from J. Petras about politics and Latin-American intellectuals. In such paper Petras argued that personal economic interest are close related to changes in focus by LA intellectual (And elsewhere I presume). In Mexico, by example, during 70's it was compatible to obtain academic prestige and grants with Marxian ascription. This changed drastically during 80's and 90's and most of Marxian Mexican economist rejected the first M; hence they are now Mexican economist. In my view, a genuine interest by ecological issues and Marxian approach is not only possible but necessary. An example is J.B. Foster. Con un cordial saludo Alejandro Valle Baeza gerald_a_levy wrote: > When a prominent Marxist, like Alain Lipietz or Mario Cogoy, > > moves away from Marxist political economy to another > > perspective then I think it is useful to ask why. The more > > interesting question in this regard, I believe, is: what were > > they attracted to outside of Marxism that they didn't think > > they could find satisfactory answers to using a Marxist > > perspective? Lipietz answered that question -- why he > > became a Green instead of a Red -- in _Green Hopes_ > > (Polity Press, l995). Mario Cogoy did not answer that > > question directly -- at least that I know of. But, perhaps, > > we can get some clues by looking at his recent interests. > > See the following from l997: > > > > http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/scistud/esf/cogoy.htm > > > > I have no information on his post-l997 interests or writings. > > Note in the above site that there is no mention of his prior > > interest in Marxism. > > > > In the above, one can clearly see that Mario's interests, like > > that of Alain's, have been to a great extent related to > > environmental economics. Thus, his interests in technology > > assessment and risk analysis especially in relation to the > > nuclear power industry, the environmental impacts of consumer > > behavior, and service-orientated processes of economic change > > and technological change in the "art of living". (It's unclear to > > me exactly what the "art of living" means in this context.) > > > > Ben Fine has been doing some work in recent years related to > > consumption and there are others such as J.B. Foster > > and OPE-L member Paul Burkett who have written on subjects > > related to environmental economics. What then is there then that > > some who move away from a Marxian perspective find in "Green > > Economics" that they don't think they can find within Marxism? > > Is this only a misunderstanding on their part or have Marxists > > failed in some ways to systematically integrate these subjects > > within a Marxian perspective on the global economy? > > > > In solidarity, Jerry > > >
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