Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Economics and Literature

[Brad DeLong <delong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Brad DeLong wrote:
>
> > > 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...
>
> First, I'd say that the toiling masses aren't as dumb as a lot of
> intellectuals think. And second, I don't think Capital was written
> for the toiling masses as its prime audience - though it'd be a lot
> more comprehensible to them than just about anything in the JEP.
>
> Doug

Hmmm. I'll have to think about that...


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