Re power: the abstraction is meaningless whence my avoidance of the same, but
of course Foucault follows on from Weber; it’s there in Weber just not so
foregrounded, in a sense building on Weber’s ‘legitimacy’ themes, i.e. re what
the Marxist tradition terms ideology, that ‘power’ does not work just as in the
‘obliging against someone’s will’ but in making subjects desirous also of
relations and objects constructed by institutions (of power). General
discourses on Power end up saying the obvious whereas as Michael says: it what
I see; the job is to show how the various facets work on the ground. (As
Foucault did in Birth of the Clinic.)
Now as to Michael's remark: 'Their papers were all very thoughtful and made a
great deal of sense. Besides being very
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From: Jim Devine <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: [Pen-l] The Power of Economics vs. The Economics of Power
how is "power" defined?
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 4:12 AM, Soula <[email protected]> wrote:
> Excellent expose. However, the papers you called nice from the mainstream
> actually by omitting power produce knowledge that contributes to the already
> distorted balance of power.
> So by omitting power they suck up to the power that be and part and parcel of
> the reproduction of power.
>
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> michael perelman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>What have I done wrong to be put in such a position?
>>
>>On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Eugene Coyle <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> A very nice paper Michael. I hope it is the basis of your Presidential
>>> address to the next AEA convention.
>>>
>>> Gene
>>>
>>> On Sep 29, 2011, at 8:12 PM, michael perelman wrote:
>>>
>>>> I just finished a draft of paper regarding the exclusion of the
>>>> concept of power in economic theory.
>>>> Any comments will be appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> http://michaelperelman.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/power.pdf
>>>>
>>>>
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intelligent,'
How could anyone overlook power in this day and age and any day age for that
matter and be intelleigent. these guys must be on LSD or some vriant thereof,
called capitalist ideology, to which they unwittingly contribute and which
kills mames and destroys.
is this level of ignorance possible? i think not. They know exactly what they
are doing. therefor it is not execusable.
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