Re: Fw: Heritage of humanity

[Anton Sherwood]

The saga of the human genome project proves that publicly financed 
science is extremely effective because it is so intensely competitive. 
The project's success also refutes the widespread notion that only 
private industry is capable of carrying out large-scale research.

 http://mondediplo.com/2002/12/15genome

That's funny.  I thought there was a widespread notion
that the private sector cannot do significant basic research.

--
Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/

RE: Economic anamolies and Kuhn

[Lee Coppock]

stagflation.

-Original Message-
From: fabio guillermo rojas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 5:32 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Economic anamolies and Kuhn



I'm teaching a course on the sociology of science and we read Kuhn's
structure of scientific revolutions. FYI, Kuhn says that science is
characterized by paradigms - most science works from basic assumptions
justified by model achievements. Scientific change occurs when anamolies
- observations contradicting theory - undermine the paradigm and new
ideas are adopted.

Can someone provide me an example of an anamoly from the recent history of
economics that led to a fundamental change in economic theory?

Fabio