BTW. Attitude of the public sector biomedical scientists toward economists
1] If they are doing studies on economic returns to research - good hired
gun propagandists who can serve our interests
2] On any other subject (e.g. economic theories of smoking and obesity).
These people are out or their league, don't know the science of the subject
they are talking about and are basically spouting nonsense.
A health attitude, in my opinion.
Whenever I tell people that I am economist working at NIH they say, "How
come, I thought they did science there?" I basically agree and tell them
that I really don't do economics but inter-disciplinary epidemiology and
operations research.
-----Original Message-----
From: michael perelman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 3:26 PM
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Subject: [PEN-L:9216] Re: RE: Re: Re: maximization?
Would that by Murphy and Topel? They like the publicly funded research
that corporations can patent.
"Brown, Martin (NCI)" wrote:
I was recently asked to review a
> Chicago paper, by two star Chicago time economists, on the seemingly
> innocuous subject of the economic returns to medical research. Knowing
what
> the client wanted to hear, they came to the conclusion that such returns
> (even for publicly funded research) are enourmously large. --
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
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