On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, you wrote: > There are more than enough Marxian economists do exceptional quantitative > work. The desired statistical work has not been forthcoming because Marxian > economists are often uninterested in doing the work. One of my great > frustrations as a journal referee was reading the 1,000,000,000th paper on > the transformation problem that contained zero empirical work. Typically, > authors would reply that the paper was "concerned with a theoretical > issue," not an empirical issue. After 1 billion papers on the > transformation problem I think it is perfectly reasonable to request that > authors demonstrate empirical relevance. > I strongly support this. The credence that Steadmans views gained without him having produced any empirical support for them is striking. -- Paul Cockshott, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland 0141 330 3125 mobile:07946 476966 paul@cockshott.com http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/people/personal/wpc/ http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~wpc/reports/index.html
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