fabio guillermo rojas: >Similarly, I find that these articles that trash economics because it is "psuedoscientific" do the same - they obsess over the wording (the use of math) rather than think real hard about the intuitions behind things. Of course, there is always bad research hiding behind equations - but the equations just express an idea - that can be debated - in a coherent way. <
Speaking up for the innumerates here -- Part of my objection may be my inability to use the tools. But I cling to the notion that part of the objection is that some aspects of "economic" activity (to say nothing of activity which has been subjected to economics imperialism) _cannot_ be the sort of thing to which mathematical manipulation, in particular equations, can be properly applied. Michael Michael E. Etchison Texas Wholesale Power Report MLE Consulting www.mleconsulting.com 1423 Jackson Road Kerrville, TX 78028 (830) 895-4005
