----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- >----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- > > >With respect to the "greatest economist." > >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 ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]