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

There are also the repeated games of hide-the-ball--designed to make 
it hard for non-insiders to understand what is going on. For example, 
consider "In an extraordinary text written during his period of 
seclusion, Louis Althusser..." A more misleading circumlocution I 
have not seen since the days of Paul de Man's "wartime journalism"...

Brad DeLong