tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post1429691356372250105..comments2024-03-06T06:34:42.881-05:00Comments on EconoSpeak: The Creature from the DeLong LagoonUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-36406884771597294562014-04-04T09:36:26.399-04:002014-04-04T09:36:26.399-04:00S'man,
I assume you are probably right about D...S'man,<br />I assume you are probably right about DeLong's obtuseness on this. I am not sure it particularly matters though. While Marx had many crucial insights (or syntheses) concerning social and economic life, I don't think there is such as thing Marxist economics. A la Mike Beggs, I think Capital it is a brilliant critique of 19thC political economy but that is not the same thing a modern econ (which to some extent shared some of Marx's critique - or at least dissatisfaction-of earlier p.e). I think it would be much more useful to use the term socialist or progressive economics which would be heavily informed by Marxian ideas and values and stop pretending there was a well developed alternative economic science that sprang out of the 1860's. Modern heterodox econ people who even call themselves Marxist seem to refer to Keynes as much as Marx (and with good reason). Defending Marx's ideas/values is great, defending Marxism as a coherent, philosophically superior system is mostly useless (not that I think you were doing that in this post). Best -pjm.Wallflyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03852136998154262919noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4900303239154048192.post-62229949941592054762014-04-03T20:45:42.332-04:002014-04-03T20:45:42.332-04:00The photo has this caption: "Brad DeLong or K...The photo has this caption: "Brad DeLong or Karl Marx?"<br /><br />Well, I'm not sure it is DeLong... I mean, it's at least 30-40 kg underweight. :-)<br /><br />=========<br /><br />DeLong and his ilk write this kind of crap because they have impunity: with few exceptions, like yourself, nobody says anything, either because they don't know any better, because they think it's useless or because, even if they know it's false, they still hate Marx, so WTF.<br /><br />If you ask me, there's more than a little hidden anti-Semitism in that shit.<br /><br />Magpiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07528637318288802178noreply@blogger.com