[lbo-talk] What's the deal with conservatives, economists, and the minimum wage?

[Ted Winslow]

Texts in which Whitehead elaborates the arguments I just attributed  
to him are available at the following places:

http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/pkt/2000m03/msg00238.htm

http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/pkt/2003m03/msg00147.htm

The second includes a passage from Russell acknowledging that  
Whitehead had managed to demonstrate to him that the grounds on which  
he had rejected the idea of "internal relations" (which Russell here  
identifies with Hegel) were mistaken.  This did not not, however,  
lead him to abandon his "atomism", i.e. his view that the world is  
ultimately reducible to an immense number of externally related bits.

"I am persuaded that the world is made up of an immense number of  
bits, and that, so far as logic can show, each bit might be exactly  
as it is even if other bits did not exist." (Bertrand Russell,  
"Beliefs: Discarded and Retained", in Portraits from Memory, p. 42)

Ted