#101 Econophysics & Marxist Humanism w/ Andrew Kliman
We continue our discussion with Prof. Andrew Kliman, dig deep into some econophysics critiques of the TSSI, Marx’s 3 system equalities, and Raya Dunayevskaya and the political history of the Marxist Humanism.
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I missed Tom's note about contacting Patreon. I have now contacted them about the problem.
Hi, Definitely a problem somewhere... I normally download Alpha to Omega via Pocket Casts on Android and via Radio Downloader on Windows, and both applications only download about 1 minute of the podcast. On Podomatic the episode is also shown as about a minute https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/fromalpha2omega/episodes/2019-08-05T02_00_00-07_00 Fortunately I was able to download the copy here. Gavin
Hi Gavin - the patreon only episodes are only available via the patreon website or the patreon app. I only put teasers up on the podomatic site so people can have a sample of the episode
Tom I don't see an mp3 link anywhere here either
Hmmm... There should be a link directly under the episode title called: #101 Andrew Kliman.mp3
This ep won’t download for me...
If you click on the .mp3 and then on the right click the 3 dots in the player and you can download it from there
Should I be able to hear the whole episode? I can only access the teaser atm
its here on the patreon page - it's a patreon only episode....
Suppose Kliman's interpretation is exactly what Marx intended but that the main claims nonetheless are false? That is, what if Kliman's interpretation results in the same conclusions reached by Sraffian economists?
I listened yesterday but I think Kliman said something similar to: the TSSI isn't supposed to be *used* per se. I guess the implication being that it was *just* supposed to show Marx's consistency. Presumably the further implication is that he either doesn't think it's a particularly good model of reality or he doesn't think it's useful one, or both. I'm guessing I've misheard or misinterpreted.
I think he means it in the sense of you can 'use' the TSSI in an instrumental way. It's more about trying to represent what Marx was actually trying to say in Capital. Whether you think Marx/The TSSI is correct and reflects the world around us is a separate issue. You don't need to even think Marx was 'right' to think that the TSSI is right in accurately describing was exactly was Marx's thought.