[lbo-talk] Manufacturing Discontent

[michael perelman]

I was asked to write something up about my book, Manufacturing 
Discontent.  I thought that I would share it with you.  Any comments 
would be be appreciated.  I was asked to wrtie something up about my 
book, Manufacturing Discontent.  I thought that I would share it with 
you.  Any comments would be be appreciated.

Of all my books, Manufacturing Discontent may seem to have the least 
links with Marxism.  After I published The Invention of Capitalism: 
Classical Political Economy and the Secret History of Primitive 
Accumulation, some people argued that the subject was purely historical 
and had no contemporary relevance.  Of course, the seizure of property 
continues throughout the world, even in the United States, where 
government can take property through the law of eminent domain and then 
turn it over to private interests.
Read the entire commentary at:

http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com/2010/03/17/manufacturing-discontent/
-- 
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA
95929

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