have less of a problem with economics.
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From: Ed Weick
To: Douglas P. Wilson; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Jay Hanson's remarks on economists
Date: Monday, November 16, 1998 8:28AM
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From: Douglas P. Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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At 9:41 AM -0500 11/17/98, Arthur Cordell wrote:
I would guess that if economics would (could?) internalize all
externalities and would stop playing the economic growth game (which I
don't
think is central to economic theory--a theory which deals with the
allocation of scarce resources among
I think that Caspar Davis's critique of economics (the 10 numbered
points in particular) provides one of the more useful ways of probing
the issue of whether economists can be relevant to current concerns, and
why much of contemporary economics is held in disrepute. I don't
necessary buy all of
There is something rather uncivilized in the last few posts from Jay
Hanson, and I don't like it. I'm not an economist, and have no great
respect for the discipline as a whole, but Mr. Hanson's remarks offend
me because they are full of prejudice and seem to be hate literature.
Surely none
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From: Douglas P. Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Monday, November 16, 1998 5:45 AM
Subject: Jay Hanson's remarks on economists
There is something rather uncivilized in the last few posts from Jay
Hanson, and I don't like
I don't agree with everything Jay has to say about economists, but I can see
his point. Just about every evil that has been perpetrated in the world
during our lives has been justified by "economics" (on both sides of the
former iron curtain). What this use of economics as a political blank check
