Monday, April 11, 2011

Wrong Yet Again

Matthew Yglesias is wrong yet again. He argues that
Karl Marx’s account of economics hews in many ways more closely to the classical economics of Adam Smith and David Ricardo than does the modern mainstream.
Except, of course, Marx insisted that Smith and Ricardo were wrong, excepting Smith's argument about the brutalization of workers under industrial capitalism.

2 comments:

  1. It really does seem sometimes like Yglesias was designed by a benevolent god to confirm everything we think about liberals, doesn't it?

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  2. Iknow, it's as if he agreed to embody and express all the errors, ignorance, and resistance to reality necessary to promote the Neoliberal project.

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