[lbo-talk] How to fix the U.S. economy

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Thu Nov 15 08:43:33 PST 2012


I don't think I've ever much used the term "reify, but it seems the term needed to describe applying "fix" to "the economy." The phrase empties both verb & object of meaning. An entity that can be "fixed" has to be something with clear & unambiguous borders: a shirt, a machine, perhaps a bone in a body, but not "an economy" or "a society" or "the waters of the earth." "Waters of the earth" is much more bounded than the economy.

Carrol



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