From: glevy@PRATT.EDU
Date: Wed Dec 03 2003 - 08:30:27 EST
Rakesh wrote: > There is no other reason for academic departments to subsidize its > research: most economists blithely ignore the capital critiques and > governments are not seeking left post-Keynesian advisors. The > critique has gone from one of economic theory to a counter critique of > Marxian theory. Three responses: 1) Surplus approach economists, like all heterodox economists, have been systematically discriminated against by the hegemonic marginalists. We should be trying to dialogue with these economists, and seek out areas of agreement, rather than referring to them as "tools" of the capitalist class. 2) Surplus approach economists, and other heterodox economists, have shown relatively little _recent_ concern about critiquing Marx. Ian Steedman, for example, moved on to other topics (like international trade theory) _decades_ ago. 3) Marxists have spent far more intellectual energy (to the point of obsession!) responding to the critiques of Marx rather than attempting to advance political economy. Consequently, Marxists are the ones who have gone from a focus on political-economic theory and capitalism (e.g. Grossmann's focus) to a counter-critique of Steedman, Okishio, et. al. So, I think your criticism of linear production theorists is better directed at Marxists! In solidarity, Jerry
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