On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> If Postone is correct, that Marx produced a Critique of Political Economy,
> NOT a critical political economy (i.e., an economics), then what is called
> Economics is simply a kind of history (even or especially when producved by
> Marxist Economists), and hence is subject to all the disagreements that
> always occur among historians. And if a "pure" capitalism only accounts for
> about half an actual economy, with the rest subject to the poer of
> contingency, then any economic proposition has only a rather slight
> possibility of being correct.
>
> Carrol
>
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> You really have to wonder if economics has become completely unmoored
> from evidence, whether anything can ever convince anyone that they
> were wrong.
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