Nathan Tankus in Notes on the Crisis:
Anwar was someone I knew, but was not close to. My connection with Anwar was different; an important intellectual challenge on an intellectual journey. As I’ve discussed a few times in the past, my journey towards economics started in high school. Keynesianism was early on attractive and intuitive to me and reading Hyman Minsky’s book “Stabilizing an Unstable Economy” was a revelation for me. I remain one of the few defenders of that book. It’s not an easy read, but it is a very productive one. I knew, however, there was something out there called “Marxist Economics” and it looked down upon any kind of Keynesianism, whether mainstream or Post-Keynesian Economics. At least, that’s the impression I got from online articles and social media.
So I also started to read Marxist economists. I visited the offices of the independent socialist journal Monthly Review. The summer of 2010 I spent reading the “magnum opus” by some of the founders of Monthly Review called “Monopoly Capital”. I write with certitude today, but I spent the first number of years learning economics trying to hold myself in a zone of intellectual uncertainty. After all, what did I know?
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