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Re: Re: Re: Economics and Literature

I'm amazed that the literary qualities of even chap. 1 of Capital
are being called into question. Section 4 is one of Marx's most
deservedly famous passages, the analysis of commodity fetishism,
which blends political economy, pyschology, philosophy, and cultural
analysis in dazzling ways. As much as I admire Keynes as a stylist,
nothing he wrote holds a candle to this.

Doug 

The Yale Humanities Major speaks: §4 may be dazzling to you literati
but 'tain't hardly accessible to the toiling masses...

Brad DeLong


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