From: gerald_a_levy (gerald_a_levy@msn.com)
Date: Sat Nov 23 2002 - 08:10:44 EST
Re Alejandro's [8035]: > Jerry, I think the list is too short and in many cases includes bad or not good books. Diego Guerrero has the idea for producing a list of 100 Marxian books with commentaries. < I think there's a problem with any artificial cut-off number. I.e. how do you decide which books make the list and which don't? An alternative way might be for a small group of people to each devise their own lists with commentaries but publish them all together in such a way that the author(s) of the commentaries are indicated. That way the reader could be informed by _who_ was giving the commentary and the list, if designed that way, would be pluralistic. Also, more generally, Marxists need to be engaged in more collaborative projects and less individual, isolated work, IMO. Another -- perhaps complementary -- way of structuring such a list would be to make it available on the Internet in such a way that others can comment on and grade (e.g.with a 0-5 star scale) a book (similar to the way in which it is done at www.amazon.com and www.barnesandnoble.com). The above is not intended to be critical of Diego: I'm sure that he would produce an excellent list with commentaries and he seems to have a knack for organizing and getting things done. He'd probably, also, be more than agreeable to working with other capable volunteers. Perhaps this is something that we could consider doing with Diego as part of the "Online Political Economy" e-journal. > However the site is excellent. it is very good guide for unconventional teaching of orthodox economics. I think will be very useful to take teaching Marxist topics as seriously as this site does with orthodox economics. By example, the Handbook for Economics Lecturers should be witen in an heterodox version. < Yes, that would be great. But they have a lot more money, time and troops than we do. In solidarity, Jerry http://www.economics.ltsn.ac.uk/books/SocialistandMarxist.htm http://www.economics.ltsn.ac.uk/welcome.htm
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