Re: Phil Mirowski

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 04:42 PM 07/19/2000 -0700, you wrote:
>  Oskar Lange.... by 1938 he was the prime defender of planning in the
> socialist calculation debate, an early interpreter of Keynesianism, and a
> Marxist.  His initial impact on the Chicago scene was to polarize
> conceptions of formal economics in even starker terms than one might find
> elsewhere. In the minds of many at Chicago, Walrasian mathematical theory
> became conflated with socialism, crude numerical empiricism, and
> politically na?ve welfare economics.

wasn't Walras himself some sort of vague, technocratic, socialist?

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