Re: Krugman and the Austrians

1999-02-01 Thread Tom Walker
arthur cordell wrote, Krugman needs a dose of humility. Here's one thought. Imagine his reaction if the budget for MIT were halved and traditional economic theory was suddenly found to be imperfect and so flawed that it was no longer acceptable for teaching. Hmmm. What options might be open

Re: democracy

1999-02-01 Thread Ray E. Harrell
Well, I usually find myself agreeing with Arthur but coming from that group that you all are lionizing, I would have to respectfully disagree. The issue for me is life experience, education and professionalism.The issue with U.S. politicians is one of time. American Politicians are elected

The Cabot Trail

1999-02-01 Thread Michael Gurstein
The Cabot Trail... M --- http://www.speakers.co.uk/books/hansbook.htm From "The 20-80 Society" by Hans-Peter Martin INTRODUCTION World-shapers moving toward a new civilisation . "The whole world is being transformed in a transformation back to the way it was

Re: different language games

1999-02-01 Thread Brian McAndrews
Hi Ray, I learned a very important lesson from 4 Mohawk women who I was privileged to teach a few years ago. They told me that in their culture, when a person is asked a question, the answer might come hours or weeks later. The answer might also be in the form of a story that might not

Re: FW: Re fwd - How science is really done

1999-02-01 Thread Brian McAndrews
Pete, take one step back from the word(concept) 'consciousness' and you bump into language. And I am not talking at all about the linguistics of Chomsky and friends. What is more familiar to fish than water? What is more familiar to us than language? What do we have but language to look at

Re: Krugman and the Austrians

1999-02-01 Thread Mike Hollinshead
Arthur, No apologies needed. Go back and look a the original post. It is all there in Krugman's own words. Mike H Apologies to Krugman. You are right. He is clearly one of the most open of the economists and seems most willing to suggest that there may be 'imperfections' in the theory.

Theobald on Y2K

1999-02-01 Thread Caspar Davis
***FORWARDED MESSAGE*** WHY Y2K CANNOT BE IGNORED AND MUST BE TREATED IN NON-TRADITIONAL WAYS. Robert Theobald. Robert Theobald believes that a primary response to Y2k and other emerging crises is to develop resilient comunities. His latest book is Reworking Success. If you have received this

Grieder on Soros

1999-02-01 Thread Caspar Davis
***FORWARDED MESSAGE*** Curious George Talks the Market by WILLIAM GREIDER THE CRISIS OF GLOBAL CAPITALISM: Open Society Endangered. By George Soros. The epic, slow-motion crisis unraveling the global economic system continues to gather momentum, taking down Southeast Asia, Japan, Russia,

Re: different language games

1999-02-01 Thread Ray E. Harrell
Brian McAndrews wrote: Hi Ray, I learned a very important lesson from 4 Mohawk women who I was privileged to teach a few years ago. They told me that in their culture, when a person is asked a question, the answer might come hours or weeks later. The answer might also be in the form of

Re: FW: Re fwd - How science is really done

1999-02-01 Thread Ray E. Harrell
Durant wrote: I don't quite understand you. Whether sooner or later we can describe accurately all the mechanisms in our brain that makes up our consciousness is not relevant to the existance of reality, it existed before us and if as for Jay's insistence we die out, it will exist without

FW - Debating goverance

1999-02-01 Thread Thomas Lunde
Thomas: Good ol FW. It seems that interesting topics often find fertile ground among our various posters. Though I have not had much time to monitor all the viewpoints, I would like to suggest "governance" as a topic in which a polarity of viewpoints is evolving. On the one hand, Jay Hanson

Re: Re:democracy

1999-02-01 Thread Ross James Swanston
At 04:45 PM 1/30/99 -0500, you wrote: Victor Milne: As I recall, this thread got started with a comment about many of the voters seeming to be neither intelligent nor well-informed. I'm sure from many of his postings that Ed Weick did not mean this in an elitist sense. No, I didn't mean it in