Surveying the Foundations

Abstract

Geoff Hodgson's comments on our article are most welcome. In surveying controversies in Marxist economics we suggested that there is a polarisation between different schools and we presented our own definite views. One aspect of these divisions which is regretted by all is the fact that the various protagonists appear simply not to understand the others; no real dialogue has developed and all sides either ignore the others or, what comes to the same thing, dismiss them. Neo-Ricardians tend to dismiss as abandoning logic all those who do not adopt their equation systems; fundamentalists dismiss neo-Ricardians on the grounds that they abandon Marx.