MIKE BEGGS: Zombie Marx: (PARTIAL) READING

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Ah. Now I remember this! Mike Beggs rejecting the arguments of those jeering leftist morons who claimed Keynesian policies would not work in 2008-2010 but keeping the jeer. Still, I do want to have a few passages from this to hand should there ever come time a lock and load on this again…Linkrot again! I must say, that if you reorganize your website, break links massively, and do not redirect, at the very least you should not be smarmy in your error messages—apologizing would be a good first step, not this, Jacobin:ShareAnd then when you have blocked the WayBack Machine from giving anything but the same error message, that is downright antisocialSo I eventually did find it at the WayBack Machine: Mike Beggs: Zombie Marx <https://web.archive.org/web/20220612170732/https://jacobin.com/2011/07/zombie-marx>: ‘In 2009, UC Berkeley Economics Professor and former Clinton adviser Brad DeLong took a potshot at David Harvey on his blog. Headlined “Department of ‘Huh?’,” and beginning “Why neoclassical economics is an absolutely wonderful thing,” the post quotes eleven straight paragraphs from a Harvey essay, which DeLong proceeds to ridicule. For DeLong, the essay is contentless waffle…. Harvey responded with some anger at “the arrogance of the neoclassical economists”: “I would have thought that in a profession dominated by neoclassical and increasingly neoliberal theory these last thirty years, that there might have appeared at least some sliver of humility…”… Many will already be laughing and mocking along with Harvey. And perhaps DeLong deserves no better…Leave a commentThat last…