ABSTRACT
In the spirit of Blume (1997), much of this chapter is devoted to an “appreciative” model of the evolution of certain “class norms,” one with obvious affinities to Santa Fe-based models of social norms and conventions. Its purpose is to recast the Marxian notions of “class consciousness” and “collective choice” in different and perhaps provocative terms and, in the process, to reconsider the criticism, familiar to most historians of economics, that Marx’s economics were too often functionalist.
