tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post6900883922629975666..comments2024-03-29T03:19:09.227-04:00Comments on The Philosopher's Stone: LIMITATIONSRobert Paul Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-70633994399601794832021-09-28T16:14:50.421-04:002021-09-28T16:14:50.421-04:00Contact us and ask your questions and queries dire...Contact us and ask your questions and queries directly to us <a href="https://businessleadsworld.com/pricing/" rel="nofollow"> MCA Realtime Callback Leads </a> Capital Brokers are receiving calls from the Qualified MerchantBusiness Leads Worldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06682586770344781777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-21680098146167798372014-08-05T09:21:14.063-04:002014-08-05T09:21:14.063-04:00Chris, this article on the "Scientific Legacy...Chris, this article on the "Scientific Legacy of Sigmund Freud" addresses your question:<br /><br />http://search.bwh.harvard.edu/concourse/900/articles/WestenOnFreud_PsychBull98.pdfWillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01144138153447901326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-44779424635335704752014-08-01T03:51:59.163-04:002014-08-01T03:51:59.163-04:00Chris, back in the day, the question of the scient...Chris, back in the day, the question of the scientific status of Freudian theory was a hot topic. The big name in the debate was Adolf Grunbaum, who took a strongly negative position. I am in no way up on the question, but you could start there and follow Google to see what else has been said.Robert Paul Wolffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-40163284555400655382014-08-01T03:29:56.532-04:002014-08-01T03:29:56.532-04:00Chris,
ThanksChris,<br /><br />ThanksMagpiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07528637318288802178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-47545411586634957292014-07-31T18:58:01.347-04:002014-07-31T18:58:01.347-04:00Wolff,
Can you recommend any books, essays, etc., ...Wolff,<br />Can you recommend any books, essays, etc., that discuss the truth content of Freudianism and/or psychoanalysis? Specifically, is it really a science? Is it really therapeutic? Are its claims epistemologically worthwhile, or illuminating but no more true than new age thought and/or religious beliefs?Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08250295324149056708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-78841201797261438662014-07-31T15:18:42.608-04:002014-07-31T15:18:42.608-04:00Magpie,
Let me clarify that comment. That's wh...Magpie,<br />Let me clarify that comment. That's what I remember from a lecture Wolff gave on his website regarding marxian economics.<br /><br />I believe it was either this one:<br />http://www.rdwolff.com/content/marxian-economics-intensive-introduction<br /><br />Or this one:<br />http://www.rdwolff.com/content/advanced-applied-marxian-economics-intensive-course<br /><br />I listened to the lecture at 4am, while I had a fever and couldn't sleep over a year ago.<br /><br />So my memory could be incorrect.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08250295324149056708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-88676740928753094152014-07-31T15:14:07.583-04:002014-07-31T15:14:07.583-04:00@Chris,
"Richard Wolff claims to have met hi...@Chris,<br /><br />"Richard Wolff claims to have met him, and says he thinks any theories about value, or surplus value, are nonsense, and refuses to talk about them."<br /><br />Sorry to interrupt you, gentlemen, but I was wondering if Paul Krugman has ever explained why he thinks that theories about value are nonsense. <br /><br />After all, neoclassical and new keynesian economics have their marginalist theory of value.Magpiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07528637318288802178noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-75496405748712856842014-07-31T14:19:42.363-04:002014-07-31T14:19:42.363-04:00Karl is one thing, but to diss Zeppo is completely...Karl is one thing, but to diss Zeppo is completely over the line....Andrew Lionel Blaishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01976034095806583387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-75470880001632966422014-07-31T12:41:43.327-04:002014-07-31T12:41:43.327-04:00Thanks, Chris. That really is depressing. I mean...Thanks, Chris. That really is depressing. I mean, he is really not stupid, but those comments are major league stupid. He seems not to have noticed that Marx was not interested in figuring out how capitalist economies could "save themselves."<br /><br />Sigh. I think my concluding sentence was correct after all.Robert Paul Wolffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-74856439483121581002014-07-31T12:31:41.315-04:002014-07-31T12:31:41.315-04:00Wolff,
Richard Wolff claims to have met him, and s...Wolff,<br />Richard Wolff claims to have met him, and says he thinks any theories about value, or surplus value, are nonsense, and refuses to talk about them.<br /><br />And what Krugman has written on Marx suggests he's never actually read him:<br /><br />http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/keynes.html<br /><br />Here's the article in short:<br /><br /><br />“What [Marx] never managed to do was offer either a comprehensible explanation of why such [economic] upheavals happen or any suggestion about what to do with them (except abolish capitalism)”.<br /><br />He remarked:<br /><br />“By my reckoning, Karl Marx made about as much contribution to economics as Zeppo Marx made to comedy. Or as john Maynard Keynes rather more elegantly put it: “A Marxian Socialism must always remain a portent to the historians of opinion –how a doctrine so illogical and so dull can have exercised so powerful and enduring an influence over the minds of men, and through them, the events of history”<br /><br />Concluding:<br /><br />“harsh words –but Keynes earned the right to say them. For it was Keynes, not Marx, who cracked the code of crisis economics –who explained how recessions and depressions can happen. And as Japan and the rest of Asia have gone into an economic tailspin, it is Keynesianism, not Marxism, that offers useful guidance about how they might save themselves”. <br /><br />You're right, he never talks about capitalism in general. And probably because, like Piketty, he never read Marx, he really does see capitalism the way a fish sees water.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08250295324149056708noreply@blogger.com