I think we're saying basically the same thing in a different way. On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Jim Devine <jdevin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sandwichman wrote: > >> How many economists are really undercover cops? >> > > It would be nice if the cops felt it necessary to infiltrate the US > economics profession because it would indicate that economists were > threatening the _status quo_ in a good way. Instead, the economics > profession almost always _polices itself_ by imposing a free-market > world-view or abstract mathematical models (often of free-market utopias) > as the baselines against which all economists are judged, promoted, > published, given tenure, etc. > -- > Jim Devine / "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be > understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in > poetry, it's the exact opposite." -- Paul Dirac > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > -- Sandwichman
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