Q: How many mainstream economists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: Doesn't matter: They all just sit around in the dark waiting for the
Invisible Hand to do it.
They don't screw in lightbulbs. They screw in hot tubs.
Who said it?:
Economists don't know much about how different kinds of markets actually
work.
W
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From: Brian McKenna [EMAIL PROTECTED]
W
===
Nope.
On Friday, January 23, 2004 at 10:43:49 (-0800) Eubulides writes:
Who said it?:
Economists don't know much about how different kinds of markets actually
work.
Stiglitz?
Bill
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From: Bill Lear [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Economists don't know much about how different kinds of markets actually
work.
Stiglitz?
Bill
==
Nope.
Ian:
Who said it?:
Economists don't know much about how different
kinds of markets actually work.
Of course, I said it! But I did not know that it got
published.
Has my intellectual property lawyer been sleeping?
Sabri
Q: How many mainstream economists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: Doesn't matter: They all just sit around in the dark waiting for the
Invisible Hand to do it.
Hmm. I don't remember if he used exactly these words, but Axel
Leijonhufvud (or Axel the Lionheaded, as we affectionately call him) said
something like this in an interview a year or two ago. I kidded him about
it afterwards.
Gil
Who said it?:
Economists don't know much about how different
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From: Gil Skillman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hmm. I don't remember if he used exactly these words, but Axel
Leijonhufvud (or Axel the Lionheaded, as we affectionately call him) said
something like this in an interview a year or two ago. I kidded him about
it afterwards.
Q: How many mainstream economists does it take to screw in a
lightbulb?
A: Doesn't matter: They all just sit around in the dark
waiting for the
Invisible Hand to do it.
alas, this isn't true. The neo-liberals don't sit around in the dark. They actively
try to force the world into the
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From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Q: How many mainstream economists does it take to screw in a
lightbulb?
A: Doesn't matter: They all just sit around in the dark
waiting for the
Invisible Hand to do it.
alas, this isn't true. The neo-liberals don't sit
Good one
Michael Dawson wrote:
Q: How many mainstream economists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: Doesn't matter: They all just sit around in the dark waiting for the
Invisible Hand to do it.
Let me tell you bout a girl I know,
I met her walking down an uptown street !
She's so fine, I wish she was mine,
I shook up every time we meet...
Talkin bout you (nobody but you baby),
Nobody but you (yes you all the time),
I do mean you (yeah my baby),
Just trying to get a message to you !
Let
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From: Tom Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
They are private companies, but the enormous scope of their influence
comes
largely as a result of their government-conferred power.
1. Who said it?
2. What was the circumstances?
3. Which private companies was s/he referring
How about this one:
Men naturally rebel against the injustice of which they are victims.
Frederic Bastiat, author of Economic Harmonies, criticised by Karl Marx.
Oops I googled to check if I got it correct. To my great surprise, I as a
naive young socialist was one day accosted in New Zealand
You googled? But you didn't answer 2. and 3.
Ian wrote:
What, is Lieberman's staff lurking on Pen-L?
Tom Walker
604 255 4812
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From: Tom Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You googled? But you didn't answer 2. and 3.
Ian wrote:
What, is Lieberman's staff lurking on Pen-L?
===
No. Enron hearings iirc.
Ian
Ian wrote,
No. Enron hearings iirc.
That's two out of three. For the (partial) answer to number three, I'll
defer to NYT columnist, Thomas Friedman's possibly hyperbolic reference:
There are two superpowers in the world today in my opinion. Theres the
United States and theres Moodys Bond Rating
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From: Tom Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 10:27 AM
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] No Googling quiz
Ian wrote,
No. Enron hearings iirc.
That's two out of three. For the (partial) answer to number three, I'll
defer to NYT
For extra credit now (an open-ended question): what are activist
groups/scholars/journalists doing to comprehend and contest the superpower
influence of these private companies with government-conferred power?
(Hint: 1. the answer is not nothing and 2. I don't know the answer. That's
why I'm
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From: Max B. Sawicky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 11:15 AM
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] No Googling quiz
For extra credit now (an open-ended question): what are activist
groups/scholars/journalists doing to comprehend and contest
They are private companies, but the enormous scope of their influence comes
largely as a result of their government-conferred power.
1. Who said it?
2. What was the circumstances?
3. Which private companies was s/he referring to?
NO GOOGLING!
Tom Walker
604 255 4812
sounds like Ian.
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 08:51:54PM -0700, Tom Walker wrote:
They are private companies, but the enormous scope of their influence comes
largely as a result of their government-conferred power.
1. Who said it?
2. What was the circumstances?
3. Which private companies was
Good quiz to pass around to the ignorati from Z Magazine.
-
Iraq War Quiz
by Stephen R. Shalom
1. The anti-war movement supports our troops by urging that they
be brought home immediately so they neither kill nor get killed in a
unjust war. How has
I love the English language: I'm assuming you mean "A good quiz from Z Magazine to pass around to the ignorati." Otherwise, some people at Z might be a tad offended.
Troy
Dan Scanlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Good quiz to pass around to the ignorati from
Iraq War Quiz
1.The anti-war movement supports our troops
by urging that they be brought home immediately so they neither kill nor get
killed in a unjust war. How has the Bush administration shown its support for
our troops?
a.The Republican-controlled House Budget
Committee voted
Who said:
Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of
the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to
drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship,
or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the
Title: RE: [PEN-L:34602] Today's quiz
Goering? Goebbels? (BTW, what's the source?)
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
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From: Forstater, Mathew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 12
goehring
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 10:06:22AM -0600, Forstater, Mathew wrote:
Who said:
Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of
the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to
drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist
Goering is right. Is it that well-known or is it going around the net?
Or are you guys really, really smart?
Title: RE: [PEN-L:34607] RE: Re: Today's quiz
I really wonder if it's really Goering, since a few years ago there was a spurious (and similar) quote from Hitler floating about. (My copy of THEY DIDN'T SAY THAT, which debunks famous quotes is at home.)
Jim Devine
Title: RE: [PEN-L:34607] RE: Re: Today's quiz
One of the Urban legends sites says it is actually
true.
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From: Devine, James
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003
10:43 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: [PEN-L:34609] RE: RE: Re
Jim wanted the source. Apparently it was from the Nuremburg trials,
although a very similar statement is in In War. Since you guys think
you are so hot, try this one:
Now I am prowling through the backyard and I am hiding under the car
and I've gotten out of everything I've gotten into so far
Forstater, Mathew wrote:
Goering is right. Is it that well-known or is it going around the net?
Or are you guys really, really smart?
it is going around the net. and independently, yes, we guys are really,
really smart - which is why we spend our time debating formal logic
rather than
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From: ravi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
it is going around the net. and independently, yes, we guys are really,
really smart - which is why we spend our time debating formal logic
rather than protesting on the streets! ;-) (running for cover),
--ravi
Ian Murray wrote:
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From: ravi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
it is going around the net. and independently, yes, we guys are really,
really smart - which is why we spend our time debating formal logic
rather than protesting on the streets! ;-) (running for cover),
Some of us
Origins: Another
timely quote in the vein of the apocryphal Julius Caesar warning about political leaders who can all too easily send the citizenry marching eagerly off to war by manufacturing crises that purportedly threaten national security and making popular appeals to patriotism. In
Title: RE: Today's quiz
no insult taken. I am very upset that I won't be able to attend the demo, since I'm flying to New York (on a red-eye!) to see my father-in-law inducted into the Toy-makers' Hall of Fame (for inventing the yacket-yak teeth, among other things) and then flying home
no insult taken. I am very upset that I won't be able
to attend the demo, since I'm flying to New York (on
a red-eye!) to see my father-in-law inducted into the
Toy-makers' Hall of Fame (for inventing the
yacket-yak teeth, among other things) and then flying
home almost immediately.
jeepers,
Verified by VisaHermann Goering
Claim: Hermann Goering proclaimed that although the people don't want
war, they can always be brought to the bidding of their leaders.
Status: True.
Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2002]
Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's
Since you guys think
you are so hot, try this one:
Now I am prowling through the backyard and I am hiding under the car
and I've gotten out of everything I've gotten into so far and I eat when
I am hungry and I travel alone.
Hint, everybody: notice how a lot of the phrase rhymes, sort of
Virtue by Ani DiFranco
virtue is relative at best there's nothing worse than a sunset when you're driving due west and i'm afraid that my love is gonna come up short there is no there there i guess i'm scared cuz i want to have good news to !
report every time i come up for air now i'm
At 12/02/03 10:41 -0600, Matthew wrote:
Jim wanted the source. Apparently it was from the Nuremburg trials,
although a very similar statement is in In War. Since you guys think
you are so hot, try this one:
Now I am prowling through the backyard and I am hiding under the car
and I've gotten out
]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2002 6:57 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:25907] Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: pop quiz time
Robinson was a very important student, then colleague, then opponent of
Keynes.
On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 06:45:06PM -0700, Ian Murray wrote:
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 6:19 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:25875] Re: Re: RE: pop quiz time
Presley is also the world's expert on the economics of Dennis
Robertson.
===
Who is Dennis Robertson?
Ian
] Re: Re: RE: pop quiz time
Presley is also the world's expert on the economics of Dennis
Robertson.
===
Who is Dennis Robertson?
Ian
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Who's Robinson?
Ian
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From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2002 6:57 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:25907] Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: pop quiz time
Robinson was a very important student, then colleague, then opponent of
Keynes
Subject: [PEN-L:25907] Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: pop quiz time
Robinson was a very important student, then colleague, then opponent of
Keynes.
On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 06:45:06PM -0700, Ian Murray wrote:
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From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL
[who said it?]
...confusion forces practical economists to explain the determination of
interest by opportunity cost reasoning - a particular rate of interest
being set by the 'pure' rate yielded by the riskless government bonds,
with inflation, risk, and administrative cost premia added. But
It sounds like Keynes, except he would have criticized (neo)classical
economics rather than mainstream economists; the latter phrasing sounds
more recent. For what it's worth, mainstream theory suggests another
possible explanation for positive interest rates besides time (and possibly
risk)
I think I said that one day after drinking eight cups of tea.
Gene
Ian Murray wrote:
[who said it?]
...confusion forces practical economists to explain the determination of
interest by opportunity cost reasoning - a particular rate of interest
being set by the 'pure' rate yielded by the
sounds like Joan Robinson.
[who said it?]
...confusion forces practical economists to explain the determination of
interest by opportunity cost reasoning - a particular rate of interest
being set by the 'pure' rate yielded by the riskless government bonds,
with inflation, risk, and
Hicks?
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From: Ian Murray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 4:00 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PEN-L:25863] pop quiz time
[who said it?]
...confusion forces practical economists to explain the determination
of
interest by opportunity cost
Envelope says it's Paul Mills and John R Presley from Islamic Finance:
Theory and Practice; St Martins Press, 1999, p. 14.
Mills is/was at HM Treasury UK
Presley is/was Econ. Prof. Univ. of Loughborough and Chief Economic
Adviser The Saudi British Bank.
As I noted after 9-11 the issue of usury
Ian writes:
Envelope says it's Paul Mills and John R Presley
from Islamic Finance:Theory and Practice; St Martins
Press, 1999, p. 14.
Damn. I am wrong again. I thought it was Gene who said that and
was planning to ask him whether that tea he drank was Long Island
Ice Tea.
Best,
Sabri
Presley is also the world's expert on the economics of Dennis Robertson.
Ian Murray wrote:
Envelope says it's Paul Mills and John R Presley from Islamic Finance:
Theory and Practice; St Martins Press, 1999, p. 14.
Mills is/was at HM Treasury UK
Presley is/was Econ. Prof. Univ. of
who said it:
Some may admit that the concentration of wealth is
indispensable, but may desire to distinguish between joint-stock
aggregations on the one side and individual fortunes on the
other. This distinction is a product of the current social
prejudice and is not valid. The predominance of
I wouldn't have the foggiest idea who said it, but I'll risk a guess as
to _when_ it was said: between 1915 and 1925.
Carrol
in my fevered and phlegm infested state I sent the below to Jim
D. by mistake; answers below
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From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Veblen?
==
William Graham Sumner.
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From: Carrol Cox [EMAIL
Pop quiz
by Ian Murray
06 March 2002 18:04 UTC
Thread Index
who said it:
Some may admit that the concentration of wealth is
indispensable, but may desire to distinguish between joint-stock
aggregations on the one side and individual fortunes on the
other. This distinction is a product
http://www.guardian.co.uk/quiz/questions/0,5961,612460,00.html
my guess: Frank Hahn for (1) and Phil Mirowski for (2).
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
-Original Message-
From: Ian Murray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 7:32 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PEN-L:20584] pop quiz
How do you know Karla Hoff? She's a nearly-new assistant prof
at U-Md. Does she have some rep I didn't know about? (I knew
she was a Stiglitz student.)
mbs
2)'[T]he evolution of economics as an academic profession is a case of
lock-in comparable to the peacock's tail. Sets of genes
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From: Max Sawicky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 12:40 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:20612] RE: RE: pop quiz in lieu of finals
How do you know Karla Hoff? She's a nearly-new assistant prof
at U-Md. Does she have some rep I
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From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 10:53 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:20609] RE: pop quiz in lieu of finals
my guess: Frank Hahn for (1) and Phil Mirowski for (2).
[1] is d)Roger Sugden
[2] is a)Geoffrey
Who said the following:
1)Economic theorists may have to become as much philosophers as
mathematicians.
a)Frank Hahn
b)Wassily Leontif
c)Jack Hirshleifer
d)Roger Sugden
2)'[T]he evolution of economics as an academic profession is a case of
lock-in comparable to the peacock's tail. Sets of
Question on the differential ownership of the means of production, the law of
value and the logical priority of the level of production over that of distribution:
Author, text and year, please:
... wheresoever possessions be private, where money beareth all the stroke,
it is hard and almost
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From: Rob Schaap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 1:00 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:15886] Quiz (No Googling!)
Question on the differential ownership of the means of production,
the law of
value and the logical priority of the level
Thomas More Utopia 1516? Didn't google, had to reread it the other
day looking for a different quote so that's my guess...
Ian
Well, I didn't squeeze much sado-glee out of that one. You're too damned
learned, Ian.
More sees with a seer's eye, eh? He has only the foetus of
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From: Rob Schaap [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 5:10 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:15899] Re: Re: Quiz (No Googling!)
Thomas More Utopia 1516? Didn't google, had to reread it the
other
day looking for a different quote
At 09:53 AM 2/8/01 -0600, Ken Hanley wrote:
You win! The prime minister of Canada. Obviously a relative unknown in other
countries. Yes he was just visiting Dubya. Dubya probably personally gave
him his instructions, including support for the new missile defence system..
:By the way how is it
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 11:47 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:7902] Re: Re: Quiz for pen-l people
Jean Chretien(sic.)? Wasn't he just visiting Dubya?
Michael Pugliese
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em.And gun registration.
Michael Pugliese
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From: Ken Hanly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thursday, February 08, 2001 7:55 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:7910] Re: Re: Re: Quiz for pen-l people
You win! The prime minister of Canada. Obviously a relati
, February 07, 2001 10:42 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:7897] Re: Re: Quiz for pen-l people
Some of the text below the pic got zapped. John Major is identified, along
with the Chinese premier and Clinton...it is the guy on Clinton's left or
the right as we look at Clinton...the guy who seems to have his
Who is the unidentified man on the right of Clinton..:) in the photo
attached?
Cheers, Ken Hanly
KHerald.jpg
John Major, former British prime minister.
Scott Cooper
The previous message said:
Who is the unidentified man on the right of Clinton..:) in the photo
attached?
Cheers, Ken Hanly
was
unidentified but some Pen-Lers should recognize him!!
CHeers, Ken Hanly
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From: Scott Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 6:18 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:7888] Re: Quiz for pen-l people
John Major, former British prime minister
Looks sort of like a retired Texas oilman.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jean Chretien(sic.)? Wasn't he just visiting Dubya?
Michael Pugliese
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From: Scott Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 5:18 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:7888] Re: Quiz for pen-l people
John Major, former British
You win the washing machine.
max
Sounds like Adam the Smith, to me.
Paul Phillips,
Sorry. Missed this message.
I realize time zones complicate comparison
of e-mail times.
You win Phillips' washing machine.
mbs
Adam Smith?
At 06:21 PM 12/7/00 -0500, you wrote:
Who said it? mbs
"Is this improvement in the circumstances of the lower ranks of the people
to be
Aw, Shucks,
Just because I am a westerner.
Paul Phillips
From: "Max Sawicky" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:[PEN-L:5859] RE: Re: Quiz
Date sent: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 09:23:05 -0500
Send reply to:
J. S. Mill, quoted in Veblen, *Theory of the Leisure Class*
Carrol
These quizzes aren't fair now that it takes only two seconds
to search them out with google.
Donna Haraway says that we are all "cyborgs."
Yoshie
Matthew takes a nibble at the worm on my hook *grin*:
Ok, Kelley. Here's your new quiz. Again, guess the author.
ok, Matthew, no more demonstrations of my amazing *hack* research skills
until i know if it's in my self-interest to do so. particularly, since
somebody owes me a $100 bottle
J. S. Mill, quoted in Veblen, *Theory of the Leisure Class*
Carrol
These quizzes aren't fair now that it takes only two seconds
to search them out with google.
Mat gives a quiz:
Ok, Kelley. Here's your new quiz. Again, guess the author.
"I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think
that the normal state of human beings is that of struggling to
get on; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on
each ot
Thanks for this, but I seem to recall another where
the inclination of merchants to overtly anti-social
behavior is even more explicit. Maybe I just inflated
this one in my own head.
mbs
Smith, WN I.x.c.27, p. 145 "People of the same trade seldom meet
together, even for merriment and
At 01:03 PM 12/8/00 -0600, Carrol Cox wrote:
J. S. Mill, quoted in Veblen, *Theory of the Leisure Class*
Carrol
These quizzes aren't fair now that it takes only two seconds
to search them out with google.
hee hee. after a debate was just carried on by way of reading what was
available on
That's all quoted in Veblen? Anyway, it's from J. S. Mill's _Principles of
Political Economy_, ch. called "Of the Stationary State."
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From: Carrol Cox
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 12/8/00 1:03 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:5906] Re: New Quiz for Kelley
J. S. Mi
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
Donna Haraway says that we are all "cyborgs."
I say (taking liberties with Susan Buck-Morss and Walter Benjamin) that we
are all sandwich[wo]men. Cyborgs are the fetishized manifestation of our
sandwichedness.
Cyborg ist mort. Viva la smo/rgasbord!
Tom Walker
Carrol:
These quizzes aren't fair now that it takes only two seconds
to search them out with google.
google this:
ode to oleo and rodeo
to romeo and solo mojo
old joe blow and slo-mo yoyo
crow cree goatee bony oh no
teepee ouiji tony so-so
ode to marjoram and iron man
also ran flim flam
quiz, damn it! washing machine indeed. at least i could get a lousy
wagon wheel pin, the production of which smith wrote about. sheesh!
kelley
Tom Michl has a paper on Adam Smith's efficiency wage theory in E. J. Nell, J.
Chatha, and R. Blackwell (eds): _Economics as Worldly Philosophy_ (Macmillan).
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Sent: 12/7/00 9:43 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:5839] Re: Quiz
Adam
Smith, WN I.x.c.27, p. 145 "People of the same trade seldom meet
together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a
conspiracy against the publick, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
It is impossible to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could
be
I don't ordinarily browse through WoN, but
I was looking for a quote I remembered because
I was to debate Steve Moore from the
Cato Institute in front of a hundred or so
right-wing state legislators (ALEC, for the
cognoscenti).
It's the one where Smith says when merchants
get together they will
ch 8 of Book 1 of WoN:
"What are the common wages of labour, depends everywhere upon
the contract usually made between those two parties, whose
interests are by no means the same. The workmen desire to get as
much, the masters to give as little as possible. The former are
disposed to combine in
Who said it? mbs
"Is this improvement in the circumstances of the lower ranks of the people
to be regarded as an advantage or as an inconvenience to the society? The
answer seems at first sight abundantly plain. Servants, laborers, and
workmen of different kinds, make up the far greater
Adam Smith?
At 06:21 PM 12/7/00 -0500, you wrote:
Who said it? mbs
"Is this improvement in the circumstances of the lower ranks of the people
to be regarded as an advantage or as an inconvenience to the society? The
answer seems at first sight abundantly plain. Servants, laborers, and
At 03:33 PM 12/7/00 -0800, Jeff Thompson wrote:
Adam Smith?
Book I, Chapter 8 in WoN
At 06:21 PM 12/7/00 -0500, you wrote:
Who said it? mbs
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