----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- [Posted on behalf of Mat Forstater. - RBE] Marie - It may or may not be "eminently suitable" for "mathematical formulation and formal diagramming," but an important question is whether it is at all suitable for the analysis of racial inequality. (You may get hints for developing a formal model and constructing diagrams yourself from the formal treatments of Kaldor's work on cumulative causation--see his papers on slow growth in the U.K. and the work of Thirlwall and his students.) You might look at the critiques of Myrdal: start with the ones by Oliver Cromwell Cox in _Caste, Class, and Race_ (and excerpted in Darity's edited volumes on _The Economics of Discrimination_) and Stephen Steinberg in _Turning Back: The Retreat From Racial Justice in American Thought and Policy_. Mat Forstater ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]