[PEN-L:1966] Re: SSA & Regulation Theory

[blairs@xxxxxxxxxxx (Blair Sandler)]

At 1:07 PM 12/13/95, Doug Henwood wrote:
>At 12:15 PM 12/13/95, akliman@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>>I was very interested in Terry McDonough's comments about Sam Bowles
>> being a "one-man crisis of Marxism," and the general drift to the Right
>> of a lot of left economists.  I've found the discussion of the Regulationists
>> interesting, but Terry has highlighted a broader phenomenon.  What
>> explains it?  Things are getting worse and worse, and its no time for
>>intellectuals to be in retreat.  Have people really become convinced by
>> the Fukuyama line that we've reached the end of history, that capitalism
>> is unbeatable?
>
>Yeah, and while we're at it can someone explain what happened to Bowles's
>colleage Herbie "The Plumber" Gintis?
>
>Doug
>

Thirteen years ago in a graduate economics class on European Economic
History, Herb Gintis made the comment, "history is made by elites." At the
time I thought this was a strange remark from a Marxist. Later I recognized
the inappropriate assumption I'd been making.

Blair