Probably most of the members of the list are aware of the expansion that
marxism experienced in Japan before World War II. After the war and until
very recently about half of the teachers in economics in the japanese
universities are said to have been Marxists. More about this can be found in
Bottomore's "A dictionary of marxist thought", under Japanese Marxism, I
guess (I don't have the English edition).
Claus Germer
cmgermer@sociais.ufpr.br
Departamento de Economia
Curso de Mestrado e Doutorado em
Desenvolvimento Econômico
Universidade Federal do Parana
Rua Dr. Faivre, 405 - 3º andar
80060-140 Curitiba - Parana
Brasil
Tel: 55 (41) 360-5214 - Univ.
55 (41) 254-3415 - Res. (Home)
----- Original Message -----
From: Christopher Arthur <cjarthur@waitrose.com>
To: <ope-l@galaxy.csuchico.edu>
Cc: <glevy@pratt.edu>
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 4:09 PM
Subject: [OPE-L:6459] Re: Re: Re: How taking a class in Marx and/orMarxian
economics is valuable for business students
> For peculiar historical reasons Japanese students after the war were
taught
> both Marxism and neo-classical economics. I well remember a few years'
back
> when the Japanese built a car factory in UK complete with
pseudo-democratic
> managment style with managers eating with workers etc. an incredulous
> interviewer asked about this and the manager replied 'We all know that
> value is created on the shop floor".
> Chris
>
> 17 Bristol Road, Brighton, BN2 1AP, England
>
>
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