RE: Where to now?

2012-11-24 Thread Dan Minette
How about Hayek? Half of the article that I'm giving a link to talks about him. It is written by another Nobel prize winner, and gives a very interesting account how his professional and popular works differ. I like the comparison of him to Marx, it makes a lot of sense to me...partially because

Re: Where to now?

2012-11-24 Thread Nick Arnett
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 1:42 PM, John Williams jwilliams4...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Kevin O'Brien zwil...@zwilnik.com wrote: OK, I'm not at all clear on how you got top-down management out of what I said. I'm getting tired of correcting all this nonsense, I

RE: Where to now?

2012-11-24 Thread Dan Minette
A few will engage with you for the same unfortunate reason (to try to correct you), but then it just becomes a matter of who can be a bigger bully. I'm not sure about that. Kevin, for example never struck me as a bully. And, I've never seen a counter-argument with facts and logic as

Re: Where to now?

2012-11-24 Thread Nick Arnett
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Dan Minette danmine...@att.net wrote: A few will engage with you for the same unfortunate reason (to try to correct you), but then it just becomes a matter of who can be a bigger bully. I'm not sure about that. Kevin, for example never struck me as a bully.

Re: Where to now?

2012-11-24 Thread John Williams
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Nick Arnett nick.arn...@gmail.com wrote: Do whatever you want with my opinion, Thank you, I will. ^^ politeness ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com

Re: Where to now?

2012-11-24 Thread John Williams
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Dan Minette danmine...@att.net wrote: Half of the article that I'm giving a link to talks about him. It is written by another Nobel prize winner, Without commenting on Burgin's book, I will point out that Robert Solow (bad Solow?) writes an extremely biased

Re: Where to now?

2012-11-24 Thread Kevin O'Brien
On 11/24/2012 11:08 AM, Dan Minette wrote: How about Hayek? Half of the article that I'm giving a link to talks about him. It is written by another Nobel prize winner, and gives a very interesting account how his professional and popular works differ. I like the comparison of him to Marx, it

Re: Where to now?

2012-11-24 Thread John Williams
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Kevin O'Brien zwil...@zwilnik.com wrote: I also note in passing that a study done a few years ago about charitable giving found that economists were the stingiest group in the study, which I found not at all surprising. Would you be referring to the study

Politeness

2012-11-24 Thread Jon Louis Mann
I'm getting tired of correcting all this nonsense, Do whatever you want with my opinion, but I, for one, will be quite grateful if you choose to present your words as though they were just your thoughts and opinions and to treat others with much greater respect. Nick I'm not sure

Re: Politeness

2012-11-24 Thread John Williams
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Jon Louis Mann net_democr...@yahoo.com wrote: It's not like he's some genius who doesn't suffer fools; that I would respect. It is not like you are a successful politician. Why would anyone care about having your respect?

RE: Politeness

2012-11-24 Thread Dan Minette
It is not like you are a successful politician. Why would anyone care about having your respect? I actually think this is a statement made in good faith. IMHO, you would grow if you were able to understand the answer to that question. While self respect is critical, and one shouldn't put up a

Re: Politeness

2012-11-24 Thread John Williams
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Dan Minette danmine...@att.net wrote: I actually think I'm not so sure about that. ___ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com