Quick. Where's my heart medicine?!!
Looks like a blatant, predatory exercise of
market power in the intellectual marketplace.
Where's the DoJ when you need them?
You left out the best part, really the only
element offered in support of his argument
that academics are compelled to be objective,
whereas we pack-traveling miscreants are
driven by ideology:
"But the structure of rewards in a field in which
top departments are constantly jostling for prestige
favors cleverness and originality, not political
correctness of any stripe."
Of course, Prof K neglects the 'structure of
rewards' in re: textbooks, grants, and honoraria
for speaking at Concord Coalition conferences.
mbs
P. Krugman from yesterday's NY TIMES: >Real experts [such as Krugman
himself], you see, tend to have views that are not entirely one-sided. For
example, Columbia's Jagdish Bhagwati, a staunch free-trader, is also very
critical of unrestricted flows of short-term capital. Right or not, this
mixed stance reflects an honest mind at work. You might think that hacks
would at least try to simulate an open mind -- that simply for the sake of
appearances the Heritage Foundation would try to find some tax it supports,
or the Economic Policy Institute find some trade liberalization it favors.
But it almost never happens. <
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://liberalarts.lmu.edu/~jdevine
