epistolary economics

[Brad DeLong]

>Carrol Cox wrote:
>
>>This of course is what the very title of Hardt/Negri's _Empire_ denies.
>>The whole purpose of the book (insofar as it can be said to have any
>>purpose than using up some more paper pulp) is to submerge U.S.
>>imperialism within a gelatineous mass of "empire in the absract."
>
>So, Carrol - you read the book? Or is this just one of those 
>"feelings" you profess to hate so much?
>
>Doug

He does have a point. "Gelatinous mass of woolly post-Foucaultian 
abstraction" seems to me to be a good description of the book...

Brad DeLong