At 12:44 18-12-00 +0000, Paul Cockshott wrote: >Why should we be worried about Marx following on from Ricardo? >The differences between them are relatively minor when compared to >the differences between the two of them and most other economists. Of course this depends on what you consider most important in Marx. If that would be the awareness of value-form and its impact, the differences between Ricardo and Marx are much greater than that between Marx and e.g. Keynes. >From that same perspective of value-form there is reason to be worried precisely because Marx *also* to considerable extent indeed followed Ricardo. His break from Classical Political Economy was incomplete (which inevitably is the fate of all "breakers"). Rounding this, even if Keynes, in contradistinction to Ricardo, was aware of the value-form of capitalism, Ricardo and Keynes shared a committment to capitalism. Because Keynes was aware of the VF his is a more subtle. Geert Reuten ˙WPC
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