The four economists’ models made capital rather than labor the economic engine

Evidence

Th e models of these four economists captured just such an essence— a society in which capital, not labor, was the engine of the economic machine. — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 1124

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Bourgeois economists avoided totalizing models out of class instinct — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 374; Fascist-era economists saw their models as Platonic truths to impose on reality — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 1116; Fascist-era economists defined profit as capital’s own productivity, not worker exploitation — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 1127 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Pure economists recast capital as private saving rather than extracted unpaid labor #expands (0.85) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 225
• Economic theories function as analytic engines rather than exact copies of reality. #complicates (0.72)