File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1996/96-11-13.154, message 88


From: "Rosser Jr, John Barkley" <rosserjb-AT-jmu.edu>
Subject: M-I: vanity publications
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 13:21:19 -0500 ()


     Well, I suppose that I should not take the bait on 
this, but since good old Uncle Lou has decided to engage in 
such jibes I might as well set the record straight as 
regards what he claims are my "vanity publications" (on the 
basis of their not being in the Columbia U. Library, that 
universal fount of wisdom).
     I have published numerous articles in numerous outlets 
on numerous topics, too numerous to bore this list with.  
However, I am also the author or co-author of two books.  
The first is _From Catastrophe to Chaos: A General Theory 
of Economic Discontinuities_, 1991, Boston: Kluwer Academic 
Publishers. It received universally highly favorable 
reviews and is in its third printing.  I am now working on 
the second edition of it for KAP.
     The other book, to which Lou made reference, is 
co-authored with my wife, Marina Vcherashnaya Rosser, and 
is entitled, _Comparative Economics in a Transforming World 
Economy_, 1996, Chicago: Richard D. Irwin.  It is a 
textbook and thus unlikely to be in the Columbia U. 
Library.  It is in its second printing, has been adopted 
for use at Harvard (Louis Godena's former hangout) and 
Stanford, and the publisher wants a second edition, but no 
contract has been signed yet (one element of confusion is 
that Irwin has just been bought out by McGraw-Hill, ah, the 
vicissitudes of publishing!).
     There is a brief discussion of the PCP in that book, 
which I posted at one point on the old M1, asking for 
reactions to it, without stating where it came from.  None 
other than Lou's big eventual pal, the inimitable Adolfo 
Olaechea, declared that it was "essentially correct."  
There was no discussion of cannibalism in Guangxi Province 
during the GPCR in that book.  It is true that I brought 
this topic up on the list after reading of a new book by a 
Chinese author reporting on these allegations.  The 
immediate response on the list was to either confirm this 
>from other sources (several people) or to deny it as 
"obviously" being a bunch of capitalist propaganda.  I made 
a few jokes later about those who made such remarks, such 
as the glorious Adolfo.  That triggered good old Lou to go 
on and on about this topic on many subsequent postings, as 
if it was utterly ridiculous.  Of course, good old Lou has 
never seen fit to address the facts of the matter.  If it 
is so funny, then why don't you present some contrary 
evidence, Lou, rather than coming on like some neo-Nazi 
making jokes about the Holocaust, eh?
J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
Professor of Economics
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, VA 22807 (not too far from 
Jefferson.village.virginia., :-))

-- 
Rosser Jr, John Barkley
rosserjb-AT-jmu.edu




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