clarity

[Brad De Long]

>What motivated me to get out the machete and hack through  Fredric Jameson's
>linguistic jungle was reading Perry Anderson write "Two works had
>established him as the world's leading Marxist literary critic, although he
>had already made the terms too restrictive." in his book The Origins of
>Postmodernity (Verso, 98).

I had always found Perry Anderson to be well worth reading--incisive,
thought-provoking, with alternating flashes of brilliance and confusion--in
his first two incarnations as a neo-Weberian Marxist analyst of modes of
domination, and as an intellectual historian of the twentieth-century left.

But I have to confess that I am only sixty pages into the _Origins of
Postmodernity_...

Brad DeLong

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"Now 'in the long run' this [way of summarizing the quantity theory of
money] is probably true.... But this
long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. **In the long run** we
are all dead.  Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in
tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past
the ocean is flat again."

--J.M. Keynes
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J. Bradford De Long; Professor of Economics, U.C. Berkeley;
Co-Editor, Journal of Economic Perspectives.
Dept. of Economics, U.C. Berkeley, #3880
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