<HTML> Brad De Long tells us frequently of <BR> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE>horrible crimes committed in the name of Reason or Utopia?</PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <BR>But he doesn't notice, it seems to me, horrible crimes committed by the ideologs at home, e. g. crimes in Indonesia, Mexico, Nicaragua, El Salvador ($1 million a day for the military for years), Guatamala, and, yes, the good old U. S. A. Or are these not crimes but the free market at work, having nothing to do with the US government? Or maybe that savior of policy, a "market failure"? <BR> Pay attention Brad. <P>Gene Coyle <BR> <BR> <P>Brad De Long wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE>>Brad De Long wrote: <BR>> <BR>>>Maybe I'm hopelessly old-fashioned, but I had always thought of <BR>>>"ideology" as something different from "knowledge" <BR>> <BR>>Which just proves you're in the grip of ideology! <BR>> <BR>> <BR>>Doug <P>To which of my ideologies are you referring? <P>(A) My--ideological--belief that the liberal ideological commitment <BR>to the autonomous subject is a good (although false) stance to adopt <BR>because it is less likely than other stances to lead to horrible <BR>crimes committed in the name of Reason or Utopia? <P>(B) My--ideological--belief that it is better to inquire whether a <BR>cat catches mice than whether it is red or white? <P>:-) <P>Brad DeLong <P>-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- <BR>"Now 'in the long run' this [way of summarizing the quantity theory <BR>of money] is probably true.... But this long run is a misleading <BR>guide to current affairs. **In the long run** we are all dead. <BR>Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in <BR>tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long <BR>past the ocean is flat again." <P>--J.M. Keynes <BR>-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- <BR>J. Bradford De Long; Professor of Economics, U.C. Berkeley; <BR>Co-Editor, Journal of Economic Perspectives. <BR>Dept. of Economics, U.C. Berkeley, #3880 <BR>Berkeley, CA 94720-3880 <BR>(510) 643-4027; (925) 283-2709 phones <BR>(510) 642-6615; (925) 283-3897 faxes <BR><A HREF="http://econ161.berkeley.edu/">http://econ161.berkeley.edu/</A> <BR><[EMAIL PROTECTED]></BLOCKQUOTE> </HTML>
