From: Riccardo Bellofiore (riccardo.bellofiore@UNIBG.IT)
Date: Tue Feb 17 2004 - 02:57:37 EST
At 3:12 +0000 17-02-2004, Phil Dunn wrote: > >Would you agree that the charge of systematic inconsistency against >Marx acts to exclude Marxist thought from any consideration (in >economics)? I would disagree. Ernesto himself played a good deal of consideration in economics to Marxist thought, and feel himmself a Marxist. For me, I consider inconsistent all the great economists. For sure, Smith, Walras, Keynes. May be not Ricardo, but in fact he is the least interesting of the 5 named. > >I say this even though I reject price of production theory. There >is no tendency of profit rates towards uniformity. >Also I am not opposed to equilibrium as such, only certain >equilibrium theories. I agree with both points. riccardo -- Riccardo Bellofiore Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "Hyman P. Minsky" Via dei Caniana 2 I-24127 Bergamo, Italy e-mail: riccardo.bellofiore@unibg.it direct +39-035-2052545 secretary +39-035 2052501 fax: +39 035 2052549 homepage: http://www.unibg.it/dse/homepage/bellofiore.htm
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