What do we do with white mice that eat black cats? Answer: Put them through creative destruction. Henry C.K. Liu Brad De Long wrote: > >Brad De Long wrote: > > > >>Maybe I'm hopelessly old-fashioned, but I had always thought of > >>"ideology" as something different from "knowledge" > > > >Which just proves you're in the grip of ideology! > > > > > >Doug > > To which of my ideologies are you referring? > > (A) My--ideological--belief that the liberal ideological commitment > to the autonomous subject is a good (although false) stance to adopt > because it is less likely than other stances to lead to horrible > crimes committed in the name of Reason or Utopia? > > (B) My--ideological--belief that it is better to inquire whether a > cat catches mice than whether it is red or white? > > :-) > > Brad DeLong > > -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- > "Now 'in the long run' this [way of summarizing the quantity theory > of money] is probably true.... But this long run is a misleading > guide to current affairs. **In the long run** we are all dead. > Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in > tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long > past the ocean is flat again." > > --J.M. Keynes > -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- > J. Bradford De Long; Professor of Economics, U.C. Berkeley; > Co-Editor, Journal of Economic Perspectives. > Dept. of Economics, U.C. Berkeley, #3880 > Berkeley, CA 94720-3880 > (510) 643-4027; (925) 283-2709 phones > (510) 642-6615; (925) 283-3897 faxes > http://econ161.berkeley.edu/ > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
