Well the title of this list serve is "progressive economics network" so there is a presumption that subscribers would either have heard some of these esoteric terms or, if not, would not be entirely adverse to learning about them. This is not the street, so I am not addressing the average person on the street. I don't presume I'm addressing the average person on the list. There may be five people who even read past the subject line. If I'm lucky. I think I can count on three or four.
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 9:47 PM, Eubulides <[email protected]> wrote: > > On May 14, 2014, at 6:26 PM, Tom Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hardly. Tomasky makes claims. Summers makes claims. I point out that > their claims have no substance. There's not an esoteric fart in a carload. > > > > ========= > > “Microfoundations”, “imputed rent”, "technocratic prose” are as esoteric > to the average person on the street as you imply for disquotationalist > [which I was using in a humorous context but I’ll leave that aside] and > every bit as useless for understanding our current-future predicaments as > the concepts of Thomistic metaphysics. So I’d say we agree even though we > come at the issues from different backgrounds. > > That’s all I’m sayin’ > > E. > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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