>Elster can't lay a hand on Kolokowski as a scholar or an interpreter of
>Marx: K's readings are always possible, while Elsters' are often just
>obtuse or perverse. On the other side, Elster isn't anti-Marxist; he
>wasn't trying to construct a tombstone, but to do develop and reconstitute
>the tradition. --jks
Elster does some good social science (game theory, traditions, etc.), as
long as he stays away from interpreting Marx. BTW, it's interesting that he
was cited right at the start of Oliver Williamson's little essay on the New
Institutional Economics in the recent JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC LITERATURE.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
