From: Gerald Levy (glevy@lagcc.cuny.edu)
Date: Thu Apr 17 2008 - 15:48:04 EDT
The following is a Sweezy’s quotation: «It took me a long, long time before I could accept the Marxist labor value theory because I was totally accustomed to the type of thinking of marginal utility price theory, and so on. And I couldn’t for a long time, I couldn’t see how there could be another kind of value theory with totally different purposes.» (pp. 1) __________________________________________________ Hi Alejandro: I think that's a pretty common experience for those who received academic training in economics before they became Marxians. If Marxians began by reading Marx (and other Marxians) before studying marginalism, then they are much less likely to experience this. Sweezy had to overcome his early indoctrination at Harvard and the LSE. In solisdarity, Jerry _______________________________________________ ope mailing list ope@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/ope
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