There's one point in Andrew's reply which I can't let past: that's the jibe that ROPE is suppressing "temporalist research". I defy anyone to describe my 1998 ROPE article--which was directly critical of Sraffian economics--as anything other than "temporalist research". ROPE will publish temporalist research when their referees believe it is of a sufficient quality. This is not to say that ROPE's referees are necessarily well qualified to make that judgment--few economists have the necessary training in the mathematics of dynamical systems in the first instance, and ROPE's referees are more likely to come from a group which is trained in linear algebra rather than differential equations. Andrew's papers *could* have been wrongly rejected for this reason. However, for the reasons given in my comment on Allin's post, I regard TSS as poor quality temporalist research. I am inclined to believe that this is why ROPE's referees recommended rejecting Allin's papers--whether or not they were the best possible judges of that. Steve >Yes, of course, it is all about politics under the surface or, in >my case, on the surface -- like the man said, disdain to conceal >our aims, etc. The weird thing is that Mongiovi and his fellow >physicalist suppressers at the RRPE make these political >denunciations, but ALSO try to deny that their suppression of >temporalist research is political! (One reason for this is that >the RRPE has an official policy against exclusion on political >grounds. So they pretend that their exclusion of temporalist work >on "theoretical" and "methodological" grounds isn't political. >Talk about empty distinctions.) So in one breath, Mongiovi calls >us vulgar economists because we don't believe that value is a veil >or that Marx would have written Das Körn instead of Das Kapital if >only he had been able to do matrix algebra. In the next breath, >Mongiovi plays dumb when he gets to Ted McGlone and I saying that >our purpose is to combat an ideological attack on Marx's body of >ideas. How, Mongiovi asks oh-so-innocently, does pointing out >some "technical errors" the man made constitute an ideological >attack? Dr. Steve Keen Senior Lecturer Economics & Finance Campbelltown, Building 11 Room 30, School of Economics and Finance UNIVERSITY WESTERN SYDNEY LOCKED BAG 1797 PENRITH SOUTH DC NSW 1797 Australia s.keen@uws.edu.au 61 2 4620-3016 Fax 61 2 4626-6683 Home 02 9558-8018 Mobile 0409 716 088 Home Page: http://bus.macarthur.uws.edu.au/steve-keen/
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