Clara E. Mattei with Javier Mejia | The Capital Order

[@luisaballen1684]

The best episode ever! Clara's enthusiasm is so contagious. I'm eager to read 'The Capital Order.' Thank you!

[@jason8434]

One way to think of political economy is as public and private configurations of the factors of production (land, labor, capital). I really like Prof Mattei's focus on historical political economy because even though the past is gone, the political economy configurations of the past still provide us with real-world models or "case law" to understand how political economy functions in the real world. It's like the configurations of a chess board, the moves and factors at play are always the same even if it's not a live game, you can still learn a lot by studying different configurations.

[@SaimonSimoncho]

I love it when heretics from the humanities come to economics and raise questions that necessarily force epistemological answers. In another of Javier's talks with a group of students I noted that I had rarely heard conversations about history of science, history of ideas or philosophy of science in the academic core of canonical economics. Welcome poststructuralism to the disciplines of objectivity. Javier and Clara; excellent conversation. Thanks dude

[@javiermejiaphd]

Thank you, Leonardo 🙏

[@SaimonSimoncho]

Very interesting last question. The approach applies in countries where participatory democracy was legally in place but not in countries whose regimes are politically subjugated. From what point in the history of emerging economies can it be understood that they do not operate under imposed regimes? And then she cites David Harvey and the Latin American dependency theorists. They study quite a lot the authors of historical books 🤜🤛🏾

[@SaimonSimoncho]

Clara quoting Gramsci and Javier scratching his head 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@SaimonSimoncho]

🫀👌🏾

[@SaimonSimoncho]

pure economics: Marginalist revolution & Mathematics abstraction 🪬 interesting