Paul B. Thanks for your reaction. I am sympathetic to your statement of a big break between Ricardo and Marx. The problem is that Sieber's 1871 book which Marx read (you refer to the later 1885 edition after Marx had died) doesn't suggest such a big break. Marx praises the book in the 1873 German Afterword and in his 1881 notes on Wagner -- even noting the one can understand the difference between Ricardo and himself (Marx) from reading Sieber! Pretty dramatic, isn't it? I think we need to explain this dissonance, not ignore it or simply assert that Marx was not a Ricardian and move on. (I'm a bit surprised David Yaffe has not yet reacted as it was his intro that caused the issue to come to the fore) Paul Z. *********************************************************************** Paul Zarembka, editor, RESEARCH IN POLITICAL ECONOMY at ******************** http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PZarembka
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