Re: Re: Phil Mirowski

[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

He was closer to a Henry George type, wanting to nationalize landholdings.  I
don't think that he did much with that idea as he matured and got famous.
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Jim Devine wrote:

> 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

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