Episode 141: Rallo’s “Negative Marginal Utility”

Co-hosts Andrew Kliman and Gabriel Donnelly discuss Andrew’s “The Negative Marginal Utility of Rallo’s ‘Reply to Andrew Kliman,’” published on May 15 in With Sober Senses.The article is his most recent contribution to the debate between him, Juan Ramón Rallo, and Angel Barroso over Rallo’s attempt—and failure—to destroy Marx’s economic thought and refute the temporal single-system interpretation of Marx, an interpretation that defends the internal consistency of Marx’s theory.

The episode is also a sequel to episode 126 of the podcast “Anti-Rallo: Spanish Libertarian Tries—but Fails—to Destroy Marx’s Capital (with Carlos Ezquerra and Sebastian Hernandez),” in which the co-hosts and guests discussed Andrew’s first response to Rallo.

Plus current-events segment: Trump’s firing of the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics escalates his fascist assault on truth and reveals his panic over, and attempt to conceal, grim macroeconomic trends. Andrew referenced a Talking Points Memo article: “Experts Say Foreign Governments Are ‘Playing Trump’ on Tariffs.”

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