> Date sent: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 10:41:40 -0700 (PDT)
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> From: Michael Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [PEN-L:6619] a nobel puzzle
> Suppose you won the Nobel prize and wanted to put it to use to make the
> society you live in improve as much as possible. Where would you spend
> the $? Supporting labor? Radical education? Organize a vanguard movement?
> --
> Michael Perelman
> Economics Department
> California State University
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If you had won the Nobel Prize, what would be the chances that you
would give a damn about society? What would be the chances that you
would be other than an ultra-individualistic, materialistic,
acquisitive, coldly "rational and calculating", egoistic, ultra-
competitive, selfish, atomistic anti-social petit bourgeois
neoclassical apologist utilizing not-so-elegantly quantified
theoretical mystifications of a fantasy of capitalism built on
contrived assumptions and syllogisms, meaningless tautologies, linear
unidirectional chains of causality and simultaneous equations
portraying perfectly--or somewhat perfectly--mobile, informed,
rational and calculating economic actors whose mutually cancelling
interactions lead to movement toward a singular general equilibrium
solution and Pareto Optimality in an non-historical or anti-
historical and anti-institutional vacuum.
Jim Craven
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