Re: A role for static analysis?

[Sabri Oncu <soncu@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Whether or not that's a sufficient condition
> to be "not impressed" with a work in political
> economy is a judgment call, of course.  I'm certainly
> not insisting one must be impressed by Roemer's work.
> But there exist many very insightful contributions
> to the understanding of capitalism that are
> based on essentially static conditions.  This would
> include Marx's analysis of the basis of surplus value
> in Chapters 1-7 of Capital Volume I, which incorporates
> no dynamic elements whatsoever.  Is his analysis here
> therefore unimpressive?
>
>Gil

Dear Gil,

I accept defeat, not that I thought we were in a battle.

As Melvin said:

Hey,  "space is the final frontier, these are the voyages of the
starship l-Pen, on its continuing mission to figure out what the
hell is going on."

I guess this is why I like PEN-L so much.

Best,
Sabri