RE: [OPE] Call for Papers for MARXISM 21

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> Yes. Economics typically has regressive research programmes and disdains
> to produce any testable predictions. The movement from dual systems to
> SSSI and TSSI and beyond is progressive and irreversible. There is
> nothing else=2C is there?
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Hi Phil:
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I don't think you can see the forest for the tress.
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Yes=2C there is more to Marxian discourse than the ultra-narrow=20
focus on the quantitative theory of Marx - but you'd never
know it by reading TSSI writers. As the name says - and as they
themselves repeatedly and consistently emphasize - it is a=20
TSS *interpretation of Marx* (more specifically=2C his quantitative=20
theory=2C not his social theory as a whole). That's why it will
never amount to anything of significance: its scope is way too=20
narrow and its research programe is *truly* regressive.
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You say there is nothing else. But=2C there is much else even in=20
the very limited realm of value theory. For instance=2C there is
the identity between value and price which you share with VF=20
theorists. This is the thesis which was subject to extremely harsh
(bordering on insulting) critique by TSSI followers. Why? Because
of its alleged lack of fidelity to the Master. How Jesuitical!
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In solidarity=2C Jerry =
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Received on Sun Sep 20 21:36:52 2009