David Yaffe did reply - posting OPEL-4650. At 23:45 11/12/00 +0000, you wrote: >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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