Ted Winslow wrote: > This isn't the idea of "irrationality" at issue in > the conception of > capitalist motives as irrational "passions." > > Keynes's idea of it is psychoanalytic.
Once again, I'll have to defer to your erudition on Keynes, which is not to say I agree with how Keynes views irrationality or with his notion that money making is a "comparatively harmless" way to channel dangerous human proclivities. That's right up there in glibness with telling people that green cheese is practically the same thing as the moon. A man can't very well tyrannize over his bank balance without tyrannizing over his fellow citizens, at least by proxy. It is precisely this kind of abstraction of the relationships between people into relationships between things that Marx criticized as a fetish. I much prefer Veblen as a psychoanalyst of the pecuniary drives to Keynes. The Sandwichman __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
