from SLATE's summary of other magazines:
>National Review [a traditional right-wing rag], Feb. 19
A piece about liberal economist Paul Krugman calls him "the
smartest man ever to have a regular column on the op-ed page of the
New York Times" before blasting him for the "latent thuggishness"
of his columns. Krugman caricatures his opponents and then
pompously dismantles the arguments he says they make (but that they
don't actually make). <
>New York Times Magazine, Feb. 11
A profile explains how economist Richard Thaler has challenged the
neoclassicist
orthodoxy. By showing that people don't act rationally toward their
finances-for instance, they'll mow their own lawn to save $10 but
not somebody else's to make $15-he helped found a new field
called behaviorism that could alter government policy and market
analysis.<
>New Republic, Feb. 19
A piece about the evolution of Amazon.com says the New Economy,
which was supposed to democratize the workplace, has turned out
sadly similar to the Old. Amazon started with the idea that all its
workers had talent and believed in the company and in their own
mobility within it. Now Amazon outsources cheap labor in West
Virginia and India, recruits upper management from outside the
company, and intimidates employees attempting to unionize. <
this fits with my understanding: there are no automatic "technical fixes"
for societal problems.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine
