From: Rakesh Bhandari (bhandari@BERKELEY.EDU)
Date: Fri Nov 11 2005 - 18:24:37 EST
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 17:08:12 -0500 Jerry Levy <Gerald_A_Levy@MSN.COM> wrote: > A couple of additional items worth pointing out: > > 1) Dunayevskaya, under her own name, had as far back as > 1944 published in the _American Economic Review_. The > _AER_ did not publish the works of graduate students! But it did publish articles by pseudonomous secretaries of Trotsky with no formal credentials? (Recall > that Shoul received her PhD in 1947). RD's article, > moreover, attracted quite a bit of attention -- including a > reference in the front page of _The New York Times_ in > October, 1944 and was commented on by Oscar Lange, Paul > Baran, and Leo Rogin in the _AER_ (there was also a rejoinder > by RD in the 9/45 issue of the _AER_). With this kind of > attention in the profession and the media one can not just > slip off and get a PhD under another name at a major college > in the US! Why not? > > 2) Shoul's "Karl Marx and Say's Law" was published in the > _Quarterly Journal of Economics_ in November, 1957. In the > QJE article, she was still very much a disciple of Grossmann (see > note #43), but Dunayevskaya -- who was also publishing works > on political economy in the mid-1950s -- had no such favorable > references to Grossmann. No but she stole his crisis theory. Indeed, her perspective had moved > in a quite different direction. politically yes. > > In solidarity, Jerry
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