A great deal has been said on the subject of value over the last couple of
days and I just want to offer some general, perhaps somewhat disorderly,
impressions, without trying to pin them to particular pronouncements from
earlier messages.
I think the point of Andrew Kliman's posting has
1 - 2 years ago there was published on the net an opinion poll done by
a U.S. group of students (I seem to remember) which showed that the
average U.S. citizen had wildly skewed beliefs on the relative size of
U.S. gvt. spending on social security vs "defense": They thought that
the former was
Three years ago when relatively new to pen-l I pushed a discussion on
another aspect of Marx's argument in CAPITAL well past the point of
diminishing social returns. I won't repeat that disservice now
(begging the possibility, of course, that I've done so already).
That said, the latest
John Rosenthal writes:
'In any event, while I am sympathetic to many of the substantive points made
by those who have invoked "dialectics", I agree with Gil on one thing:
the appeal to "dialectics" resolves nothing here. A deduction is a deduction
is a deduction. If there are many different
Pen-l has been pretty grim of late, so here goes. (WARNING: some
will be offended, including maybe even my employers.)
TOP TEN REASONS
WHY BEER IS BETTER THAN JESUS
10. No one will kill you for not drinking Beer.
9. Beer doesn't tell you how to have sex.
8. Beer has never caused a major war.
We're still looking for an economist--unlike academia, we have not been
deluged with applications. We are a research office of eight (three PhDs
and an opening with the departure of another), and there is some time to do
research of one's choice in addition to the policy research needed by
