It’s funny that whether in what I used to do, economics and politics, or what I do now, coaching and manual therapy, I still run into the same epistemic issues. The BPS model is overly broad. It can accommodate almost any observation, giving it very little discriminatory power.

There are fine arguements one could make about why wage labour has systemic issues. But eventually when you push these sorts of people they will end up making all systems to require coercion at some level of analysis.

I didn't even have to read the paper to know this is the shit they would pull to come to a result that there hasnt been catch up development. Unserious pseudo intellectual work

Marx worked as a journalist and editor it wasn't really "low end"

It will be interesting to see marxists take this slant quite to the contrary of many other marxists because they realise that arguing on the grounds of the LTV is a losing battle. Maybe they will adopt a position like Cohens.

Why is the wiki article for Luigi Pasinetti written like this. It reads like it's written by a fan rather than as a neutral point of view. Calling a work elegant, or pedagogically effective, is glaze. share.google/rdspQHBc4VznkAo…

But why use wealth if we are concerend with livings standards when income is a better measure on that generally, and if we wanted we could find out how the wealth impacts income, or we could even just look at raw consumption data in terms of goods.