Steve
On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Charles Brown wrote:
>
> >Gee, is everybody on LBO a Marxist ? Coulda fooled me. I thought
> >non-Marxist economics was discussable on this list.
>
> Absolutely.
>
> >I'm not even sure that Doug Henwood terms himself a Marxist economist.
>
> I'm not an economist!
>
> As for the Marxist label, my first instinct is to say "depends on
> who's asking." But if I had to make what the pollsters call a forced
> choice, yes or no, then yes, unlike Marx, I'm a Marxist.
>
> > He certainly seems to discuss economics from the standpoint of
> >Keynes sometimes.
>
> As I've probably said too many times, I think Keynes is the best
> economist the bourgeoisie has produced in the 20th century, and he
> has to be taken seriously by anyone considering him-/herself a
> Marxist, just as Marx himself took Smith and Ricardo very seriously.
>
> >Then Hayek is discussed all the time.
>
> Nothing wrong with that.
>
> Doug
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