yes. Eileen publishes a ton in journals.
Peter was offered (and took) a position at Michigan State
(I think) when he wasn't even on the academic market.
Of course, it was in an IR department. Not "econ."
mbs
Does that work win the respect of "real" economists?
I beg your pardon but our
Where did she make the claim? I don't know of any specific examples, but few
economists of his time had such experience.
This calumny is not novel. The earliest instance is Mitrany, David. Marx against the
peasant: a study in social dogmatism.
P.S.: Dierdre McCloskey was claiming this
RE
They are difficult, although there is some nice stuff in them. Hard as it
is, there is some pretty language in the cahpter on commodity fetishism.
-- and --
The first few chapters of _Capital_. They *are* turgid and nearly
unreadable, in the standard English
I beg your pardon but our industrial relations
people -- Eileen Appelbaum and Peter Berg --
have visited many factories, interviewing workers
and collecting data, for their research on workplace
organization.
mbs
Modern sociologists (like Michael Burawoy) visit factories. Economists
don't do
There are numerous stories about groups of workers saving up money
together so that they could share a copy. The cigar makers used to have
Capital read to them when they worked.
In many case, I am sure that the workers understood it better than their
more educated superiors.
--
Michael
Does that work win the respect of "real" economists?
I beg your pardon but our industrial relations
people -- Eileen Appelbaum and Peter Berg --
have visited many factories, interviewing workers
and collecting data, for their research on workplace
organization.
mbs
Modern
aah, but you don't understand. In the eyes of the Profession, those are
mere sociologists. And as the one of the key Party Ideologists, Paul
Krugman, has noted, they work for an organization filled with nothing but
hacks.
At 01:32 PM 9/11/00 -0400, you wrote:
I beg your pardon but our
It would be interesting to get validation that Marx never had first-hand experience
with farms or factories. I don't like his
writings on agriculture particularly, but Marx' work on the reorganization of
production during the industrial revolution is
truly top-notch -- some of the finest
Brad DeLong wrote:
I'm amazed that the literary qualities of even chap. 1 of Capital
are being called into question. Section 4 is one of Marx's most
deservedly famous passages, the analysis of commodity fetishism,
which blends political economy, pyschology, philosophy, and
cultural analysis
