Re: Re: Re: Re: the expression "political economy"

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ted wrote:
> For these purposes, the category "bourgeois thinker" is not merely not
> helpful it's disabling since it prevents us from examining ideas with what
> Keynes and Gadamer call "good will".

Mine didn't use the phrase "bourgeois thinker," but I agree: one can learn
from people like Keynes. Keynes fills in a lot of gaps in Marx's vision of
macroeconomics, for example. Even an anti-Semite and eugenicist like Irving
Fisher had some good things to say, e.g., his theory of debt
deflation-driven depressions. Even Milton Friedman has a couple of things
to say, as when he clarifies neoclassical theory so we know better what it
is we oppose.

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx & http://liberalarts.lmu.edu/~JDevine/JDevine.html