From: glevy-AT-pratt.edu
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 1996 16:15:30 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: autovalorization


Harry M. Cleaver wrote:

> Maybe Massimo can visit Ed and make a copy, skim it, or better yet scan
> it and make it available? If we did this with the stuff we discuss after
> a while we'd have quite a collection. :-)

Great idea! If only we all had scanners and Net systems that allowed us to
upload the materials .... With the decrease in price of hardware and
software, I believe we will do this in the not-so-distant future. There is
a certain kind of poetic irony in such a possibility.

> Jerry: Yes, I know Guttmann was influenced, but I never knew him
> personally. I think he was in the original Orford Road group with John
> Merrington, Peter Linebaugh et al, but I'd have to check my notes.

Robbie is an interesting character, personally and intellectually. He
currently teaches at Hofstra University and the Universite' Paris-Nord. He
grew up in Austria, I believe, and both of his parents are survivors of
Nazi concentration camps. He attended the University of Vienna and the
Free University of Berlin and studied in London and Paris as well. He is
fluent in French and German (and, possibly, in Italian). His earlier
influence by Italian Marxists can be seen in the choice of articles in he
book that he co-edited called _The Labor Process & Class Strategies_
(London, The conference of Socialist Economists, 1976) which included
reprints of articles by Sergio Balogna and Mario Tronti.

He applied for a position teaching "money and banking" at the New School
circa 1981. As a student I supported him strongly, but the faculty - led
by two well-known Marxists - opposed his appointment arguing that he
supposedly wasn't strong enough in econometrics. It was pretty crazy, but
then a lot of  crazy things happened at that school (I'm sure Harry
remembers). His book  _How Credit-Money Shapes the Economy: The United
States in a Global System_ (Armonk, NY, M.E. Sharpe, 1994) was heavily
influenced by the  French regulationist school. I think it is a very
important book and would recommend it strongly (even if I differ with his
theoretical perspective and his political conclusions).

> The best English discussion available to my knowledge is in Steve's
> dissertation. Hey Steve, can you upload a post a couple of chapters at
> least?? On that subject, you really should get the whole thing on the web
> --in print too as far as that goes! I've got my book into e-text, I've
> just got to find the time to upload it both textonly for gopher and
> html'd for the web. Have you thought about it?

More great ideas.

Jerry



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