Letters

On Modern Economics

Editor:

There are good reasons to criticize modern economics, but, unfortunately, Mark Kelman and Robert Lekachman do not employ them in their articles in the Summer 1973 issue of Dissent. [See Robert Lekachman, “The Conservative Drift in Modern Economics,” and Mark Kelman, “The Social Costs of Inequality.”] I would like to point out the fallacies and internal inconsistencies in their writing, and to suggest s...