Re: People who think that "rational economic man" is sociopathic mightfind this a bit humorous

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Nuwer wrote:
>
> The story that neoclassicals tell is plausible to many
> who live in this atomisitic world where people are
> separated by markets. Given this world, what kind of
> story can you or I tell that doesn't appear to be a
> fantasy? (I mean this as a sincere question, for I'm
> struggling to find such a story.)

This way of 'feeling the world' is fully developed in _Paradise Lost_
and _Paradise Regained_. Those epics make imaginable the unreal reality
of the abstract individual existing prior to and autonomously of all
social relations (history).

Carrol