From: Jerry Levy (Gerald_A_Levy@MSN.COM)
Date: Sat Sep 02 2006 - 12:54:08 EDT
> The IWGVT sessions that Alan & Andrew organized for various > conferences were genuinely pluralistic. Hi Gary: Do you really think so? I don't. > the editors will probably have to make a deliberate effort not to let the > thing become the TSSI Journal of Economic (unless they want it to be-- > and there would be nothing wrong with that either). Indeed, there would be nothing wrong with a _TSSI Journal of Economics_. But, that's not what they claim they want COPE to be. Yet, they are inconsistent. For instance, in the Mission Statement" there is: "We encourage proponents of the temporal-single-system interpretation (TSSI) of Marx's value theory to become members of the editorial board and to contribute to _COPE_". Is this what they mean by being "steadfastly committed to pluralism"? They go on to claim in the "Mission Statement" that: "TSSI research of the last quarter-century has decisively refuted widespread claims that Marx's own value theory has been proven internally inconsistent or in error. It thus establishes a basis for a new research program that, in contrast to mainstream Marxian and radical political economy, proceeds from Marx's contributions rather than from the 'corrections' of his alleged errors." Do you think that was written by or agreed to members of the Editorial Board who are not advocates of the TSSI? They continue -- remember this is all part of the "Mission Statement": "An indispensable aim of _COPE_ is to create an institutional basis for continued research in the TSSI, and TSSI-informed theoretical and empirical work which, because of limited access to resources, does not currently exist. We hope that, by working collaboratively on and contributing to _COPE_, proponents of the TSSI will be able to turn it into an ongoing, self-sustaining research program. We recognize that such a research program must include theoretical and empirical investigations informed by the TSSI, as well as interpretive work proper." Is this the "mission" of a journal "steadfastly committed to pluralism"? I think not. Indeed, it is a very partisan and non-pluralist perspective. Is there anything wrong with that? Well, if they claimed to be the _TSSI Journal of Economics_, then I would say: nothing. But, to claim -- after including the above in their "Mission Statement" -- that they seek to be a genuinely pluralist journal, there is an obvious contradiction. A _genuinely_ pluralist journal is one thing, a TSSI journal is another. I'd be interested in knowing -- for those listmembers who are on the Editorial Board -- how many of you agree with and approved of the "Mission Statement" of _COPE_? In solidarity, Jerry
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