[OPE] Recent serious theoretical discussions: reply to Dogan

[GERALD LEVY <gerald_a_levy@xxxxxxx>]

> what happened to the whole serious theoretical discussion on this list?

 

Dogan:

 

There has been *many, many* serious theoretical discussions on

OPE-L in the last three months alone. *Which of the following threads

would you say was a discussion that wasn't "serious"?*

 

 

January, 2008

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* labor theory of value and trade

* economic calculation

* rising primary commodities = rising land prices 

* levels of abstraction

* Lapavitsas on the financial crisis

* "parasitism" of the service sector?

* productive and unproductive labor and forms of surplus value

* 1,2,3 many departments?

* Fred's argument about the 'deduction'

* domestic labor

* The Moseley paradox  and stock/flow definitions / the lump of surplus value fallacy

* accumulation of capital and the working class - actual non-existence of variable capital

* glossary for Volume 1 of Capital

* the phenomenology of prices

* imperialism in our century

 

 

February, 2008

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* studying unproductive labor: CEPR report

* valuations, Austrians and Kantoravitch

* theory of trade, the world market and state

* power

* leave the oil in the soil?

* Alexander Cockburn on carbon catastrophism

* devaluation and revaluation of variable capital

* Marxian equilibrium

* levels of abstraction  (continued)

 

 

March, 2008

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* The Financial Times and the Left haven't a clue

* estimating the severity and duration of a capitalist economic crisis

* Anwar Shaikh on GDP and income distribution

* England and Ireland

* one of the great inventions of the 20th century? (GDP)

* Marx and Darwin

* capitalist states, imperialism and militarism

* Francis Wheen, "Capital Crimes"

* unproductive labor (continued)

 

(Obviously we didn't _just_ discuss "serious theoretical"

issues: we discussed, for instance, the passing of Andrew

Glyn and the United Socialist Party of Venezuela internal

ballot. Those weren't "theoretical" topics, but I thought they

were meaningful and serious discussions.)

 

You obviously haven't been paying attention to what we

have been discussing to make such an erroneous assertion.

I think you owe all of those who participated in the above

discussions a huge apology.

 

In solidarity, Jerry

 

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