So that we are forced to agree with seven generations of critics: Capital is a mountainous inconsistency. As pure Political Economy it may be faulted for introducing external categories; its laws cannot be verified, and its predictions were wrong. As ‘history’ or as ‘sociology’ it is abstracted to a ‘model’, which has heuristic value, but which follows too obsequiously ahistorical economic laws.
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