``Unsurprisingly, I think Michael Heinrich's Introduction available from Monthly Review Press is *much*, *much* better, and it also covers all three volumes. '' Angelus Novus
``I assign both books for my class. I think that the students get more from Harvey. However, I am a great admirer of Heinrich's book.'' Michael Perelman ---------- Since I went through all the lectures on Capital v.1 and most of v.2. I have to say, Harvey helped me a tremendous amount. Harvey works in relation to Marx and his somewhat obscure (to my mind) passages and clarifies them. In the lectures, he assumes you just read the material. Now these lectures may not be rigorous but neither were the lectures on Calculus. Rather they were illuminating and suggestive and set up generalized relationships and overviews. I am not sure Harvey would help much for the word problem sets like the Jim Devine outlined. God that was funny, but illuminating. I suppose Julio Huato is right, it is important stuff to know. However, it really is a shame economists are now in positions of great power to design the social system to benefit the rich. If Harvey had gotten down to some technical doxology, I would have been nowhere. I see that both Doug Henwood and Michael Perelman wrote blurps for Heinrich's Introduction. Probably worth buying and reading. By some fluke I am trying to go through JK Galbraith, The New Industrial State (1971?). It's like an old movie, very nostalgic. Oh, the industrial state, how sweet it was... CG _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
