[OPE-L:2836] Re: Re: Re: what a Marxist may learn from Keynes?

From: clyder (wpc@dcs.gla.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Apr 13 2000 - 06:54:41 EDT


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From: riccardo bellofiore <bellofio@cisi.unito.it>

>
> The fact that Keynes didn't recognized a dependence from Marx (though, as
I
> said, he endorsed the idea of a monetary circuit as coming from Marx) is
> not relevant, in my opinion. First, he may have been ignorant of a line of
> continuity. Second, my point is: do Marxists today (or 50 years ago!) need
> to consider Keynes (like Kalecki, like Robinson, like Sraffa, like
Minsky),
> a political economists, and not a vulgar economist, like Marx considered
> Ricardo a political economist, or not? My answer is: yes.
>

I quite agree with this, Keynes is definitely not a vulgar economist.



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