<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_attr" style="background:none;font:400 13.33px/19.99px Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;outline:transparent 0px;border:0px rgb(34,34,34);width:1875px;text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;overflow:visible;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal" dir="ltr">On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 9:33 AM Giulio Prisco <<a href="mailto:giulio@gmail.com">giulio@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br style="background:none;font:400 13.33px/19.99px Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;outline:transparent 0px;border:0px rgb(34,34,34);width:auto;letter-spacing:normal;overflow:visible;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal"></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 5.54px;text-align:left;color:rgb(34,34,34);text-transform:none;text-indent:0px;letter-spacing:normal;padding-left:6.93px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13.33px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;text-decoration:none;word-spacing:0px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;white-space:normal;background-color:transparent"><div style="background:none;font:400 13.33px/19.99px Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;outline:transparent 0px;border:0px rgb(34,34,34);width:1861.53px;letter-spacing:normal;overflow:visible;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal"><div style="background:none;font:400 13.33px/19.99px Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;outline:transparent 0px;border:0px rgb(34,34,34);width:1861.53px;letter-spacing:normal;overflow:visible;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal" dir="auto">William James</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Quite a pragmatic post ;)</div><div><br></div></div></div><div dir="auto"><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 10:04 <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_9164413895554487965m_807624554159374893WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> </p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Excellent choice. Adam Smith had economics figured out way back in the 1770s. Had Karl Marx been a reader of English and had Adam Smith’s 1776 book Wealth of Nations, the horror of communism would never had needed to infect the planet.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<br></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm not sure where to start with this one, but maybe first off I would say that Karl Marx did read WoN, and other Smith, as if it wasn't painfully obvious.</div><div><br></div><div>Capital is part of the lineage of WoN, cf. labor theory of value. Also. Smith was pretty much pre-capitalist and probably would have chosen his words more carefully if he could have seen the influence that WoN would have. </div><div><br></div><div>I like to say that Capital is the book that Adam Smith would have written if he had the luxury of being able to read Wealth of Nations like Marx was able to.</div><div><br></div><div>Have you read both? Or just hate them damn pinkos, Sen. McCarthy?</div><div><br></div><div>NB: A lot of modern day economists might take umbrage at the idea that Smith "had economics figured out", especially because he was not able to see modern capitalism at its finest.</div><div><br></div><div>BTW, I am not a communist, I just believe in market failures. As does any economist worth their salt.</div></div></div></div>
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