Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 19:29:36 +1000 From: Steve.Keen-AT-unsw.edu.au Subject: Re: DIALECTICS VS AM (SAYERS VS COHEN) I've mainly been a passive (occasional) observer of this stream, but something Justin said about internal relations prompts the following reference. The same debate between internal and external relations has been proceeding amongst post keynesian economists in recent years, and there is an excellent article by Ted Winslow on the subject in the Economic Journal of 1989, which puts the position that internal relations--also called "organicism" in this debate--are the stuff of Keynesian economics, but that rather than ending up with a defeatist "everything depends on everything else", this is attenuated by a hierarchy of internal relations, some of which can be taken as given depending upon the level of analysis. That's a very patchy and straight off the top of the head summary; you might find it worth consulting the paper (which is fundamentally philosophical in content). Cheers, Steve Keen --- from list marxism-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- ------------------
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