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>With respect to the "greatest economist."
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>First, what are the criteria? Influence on subsequent work?
>Frequency of citation, approving, disapproving, or both?
>Inventiveness? Insight? Correctness? Mastery of theory?
>Empirically relevant? [Certainly not all economists who have been
>influenced by and who have cited Karl Marx have thought he was
>correct in his analysis].
Does anyone think Marx was correct? Falling rate of profit? Real
wages being driven down to subsistence levels (either absolute or
relative)? Final crisis of capitalism?
Brad DeLong
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