On Aug 17, 2010, at 5:17 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> Nor can I imagine many economists, bourgeois or not, writing as well! I
> read Smith in a somewhat peculiar context. It was in the midst of a
> severe depression which made it impossible for me to read anything at
> all complex --EXCEPT while peddling an exercycle. So for about an hour a
> day, 5 days a week, I would sit peddle away on an exercycle and read
> Smith! I reread _Theories of Surplus Value_ the same way during another
> seige of depression.
Wow, all bouts of depression should be so productive.
Doug