In a very sympathetic review of Herrstein and Murray in Forbes (10/24/94),
Peter Brimelow reads their book as a four-pronged critique of social
policy:
1. a critique of the welfare system as it subsidizes birth among low IQ women
2. a critique of federal educational programs in that they
I want to pick up on what Jime Devine says below and expand a
little...
On Tue, 25 Oct 1994, Jim Devine wrote:
IQ also misses the fact that all the goods and the bads of the world
are results of collective efforts (though the collectivity is not
always obvious). The folks with a
I appreciate hearing this discussion from the economists' points of
view. You folks have the skills to approach these sorts of social and
economic problems that we lawyers do not have. However, I want to throw
something from the field of law into the discussion.
I have taught evidence a
Jerome Kagan in an older article (Policy ??) finally found 20-some cases of
twins who had been raised by different "parents" who also fell into different
socio-economic groups. There were so few because adoptive agencies
others directly concerned try to match natural and adoptive parents.
Another really good critique of IQ and of meritocracy is
William Ryan's book Equality.
Rudy
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Doug asks--
It seems that everyone these days accepts the Hayek critique of planning.
Are there any sharp new critiques of the critiques that the comrades
could recommend?
Some possibilities: 1) Roemer's _A Future for Socialism_ (1994),
beginning with Ch. 4, where he provides a brief
On Wed, 26 Oct 1994, Doug Henwood wrote:
It seems that everyone these days accepts the Hayek critique of planning.
Are there any sharp new critiques of the critiques that the comrades
could recommend?
Well, not everyone. I do, more or less, but there are Albert and Hahnel,
Pat Devine,
It seems that everyone these days accepts the Hayek critique of planning.
Are there any sharp new critiques of the critiques that the comrades
could recommend?
As for sharpness, the reader will have to judge, but Paul Cockshott and I
have a piece that takes on the critique, primarily with
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send to me via e-mail or fax? I'm trying to schedule around them. Thanks
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Gil, can you summarize Stiglitz's argument in a short paragraph?
in pen-l solidarity,
Jim Devine
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You can see the beginnings of an alternative critique of Hayek in Zuboff,
The Age of the Smart Machine -- especially in her notion of the electronic
text. She is a liberal and working in an entirely different context, but
she shows how knowledge can be generalized by diffusing it via new
A number of recent posts have alluded to the current debate over the direction
of socialism for the future; market--central planning--participatory. This
seem to me to be a crucial issue for the left and I was wondering if we could
see an exchange on pen-l between some of the
Ellen Dannin's comment on individual vs. group propensities brings up
another point on the "heritability" of IQ (as opposed to unmeasureable
intelligence): it's fallacious (bad statistics) to take a correlation
between parents' IQ and that of their children in one group and then
apply it to
Ray Miller writes:
We begin with the fact that there exist certain tests, which I will call
conventional IQ tests (CIQ), which may measure no human characteristic more
significant than the ability to take CIQ tests. Some people argue that these
tests measure intelligence, whatever that is.
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