Eubulides wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Michael Perelman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > No. No. No. Ask any grad student in economics. The death of a > bazillion > > cuts occurs in grad school. Once you return to life, you are a hardened > > economist who has invested years in learing that stuff. Throwing it > away > > is a painful confession. > > > > =================== > > Well how many economists on this list survived? Clearly it can be done, > no? Turn Samuelson's appropriation of Mach against the mainstream....... >
I would expect that only those economists 'survived' who had already been engaged in left political practice _before_ they had taken much econ. It is extraordinarily rare that anyone 'turns' left from reading/thinking alone, absent the impetus of finding him/herself engaged in concrete struggles of some sort. Overwhelmingly, the attraction of left theory in general (or of marxist theory in particular) is that it appears first to a person as a way of making sense of activity in which they find themselves caught up. One backs into left theory as it were rather than walks into it straightforwardly from "study." Carrol Carrol > Ian
