Mason Gaffney wrote: "Dave Ellerman refers to Marx as capitalism's 'dancing bear', and makes a good point. Marx was useful, to frighten the Babbittry into opposing workable reforms. As to methodology, please note the close parallel between Clark's weird concept of capital, and Marx's. Ask yourself, why do more Marxists than Austrians survive in our richly endowed academies?" It appears Mason has quite a few things in mind here. May I ask him to elaborate or explain. James Ahiakpor