From: Gerald_A_Levy@MSN.COM
Date: Thu Mar 17 2005 - 09:43:50 EST
Hi Ajit, > [responding to Andy B ] ... it comes close to the childish criticisms > such as your assumptions are not realistic -- as if Arrows and > Samuelsons don't know that! I raised a point the other day, in reply to David L, that spoke to this issue, I believe. Except the "childish" authors who I was citing were Joan Robinson and Ian Steedman: > A methodological critique (which is usually what > diagram-intensive immanent critiques boil down to) is not a "mooshy > evasion". There were no graphs of formulas in Joan Robinson's "The > Need for a Reconsideration of the Theory of International Trade" or in > the section of the text by Ian Steedman on "The > Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson > Theory of Trade" but they constituted, in my view, a *devastating* > critique of H-O-S trade theory. [....] [the Steedman reference is (1980) _Trade Amongst Growing Economies_ , Cambridge University Press, pp. 4-7] So, would you claim that Robinson and Steedman were advancing a childish critique? In solidarity, Jerry
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