[PEN-L:2680] Duke University's literature department

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Jan 29 09:33:57 PST 1999


Rakesh Bhandari wrote:


>Wasn't the dissolution of classical economics by marginalism based on the
>critique of fixed identities? Instead of classes fixed by relations of
>production, we find that workers can become entrepreneurs by the
>investment in human capital and entrepreneurs are utility
>maximizing consumers in the determination of their technological mixes.
>Instead of classes, we find a multiplicity of identities which each agent,
>regardless of her class, assumes in her daily interaction. The social
>landscape is levelled so that multiple identities, available to all, can
>blossom.

What's your identity, Rakesh?

Doug



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