The Revenge of Karl Marx by Christopher Hitchens

[david_z]

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Chris Hitchens is the British-born pro-war atheist. Steve Keen is the anti-marginalist Australian economist.

It was Keen who visited the Mises forums and attempted to defend his critique of Say’s Law.

@david_z

Yep - now that you mention it, i remember the Say discussion, that’s what I was thinking of.

I missed this, could you possibly link to it? Thanks

A Marxist/Keynesian critique of Say's Law

In the recent Say’s Law thread, poster Steven Shaw links to Steve Keen’s “Nudge Nudge, Wink Wink, Say No More” - a paper in which Say’s Law is determined to be fallacious: The interesting thing about Mr. Keen’s argument seems to me to be how it so quickly falls apart once it is revealed that it depends logically on Marx’s theory of profit, which in turn depends upon his labor theory of value. Moreover, to the untrained eye Mr. Keen’s critique of Say’s Law appears to be a quite accurate descript…