Reactions to Piketty: Centre-right: another communist paper from Piketty Actual communists: Lol we already knew this, loser. Latin Americans: He stole from Structuralists but didn't mention us! Heterodox: We denounce the methodological mainstreaming of dependency theory - ThreadSky

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pseudoerasmus.bsky.social • 7 days ago

Reactions to Piketty:

Centre-right: another communist paper from Piketty

Actual communists: Lol we already knew this, loser.

Latin Americans: He stole from Structuralists but didn't mention us!

Heterodox: We denounce the methodological mainstreaming of dependency theory

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xntl.bsky.social•7 days ago

wait. that makes it sound like he's actually doing interesting work...

pseudoerasmus.bsky.social•7 days ago

I'm in a bind because although I think the paper is mostly nonsensical, I still think Piketty has added something to the literature and is not merely rehashing Samir Amin. (If someone thinks he's copying from Amin, it means he hasn't read the paper. the paper is more in the spirit of Prebisch)

deepest-sleeper.bsky.social•7 days ago

I am a layman but I am somewhat familiar with Samir Amin, etc., and did read the paper. Do you mind briefly explaining why you think it's nonsense? Do you disagree with Prebisch's work as well? I will check out that W. Arthur Lewis book. That looks great.

deepest-sleeper.bsky.social•7 days ago

No worries if you don't feel like explaining. I would look forward to a blog/substack some day. It has been a long time since an academic paper got the other place buzzing to this degree. Glad we can be a little more relaxed here...

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