yup
On 11/2/06, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jim D. writes:
>thanks for the contributions. I've decided to call economics textbook
>writers "the Ekon," after Axel Leijonhufvud's mock-anthropological
>study of the profession.
Leijonhufvud, Axel (1973), "Life Among The Econ," Western Economic Journal
11, 1:
>"status is tied to the manufacture of certain types of implements, called
>"modls." … [And] that most of these "modls" seem to be of little or no
>practical use, [which] probably
>accounts for the backwardness and abject cultural poverty of the tribe"
>....[the most]
>"exquisite modls [are] finely carved from the bones of walras" [referring
>to Léon Walras, the late 19th
>century father of modern, formal general equilibrium theory.]
--
Jim Devine / "Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to
them, they translate it into their own language, and forthwith it
means something entirely different." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
