Economics and Literature

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The thing I like about Marx's writing is the feeling of a combination of enormous erudition combined with earthiness and common sense wit.

CB

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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