From: Ed Weick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>you are confusing economics as a science with the subject matter economists
>attempt to study. To extend an analogy I've used before, its a little like
>blaming geophysicists for an earthquake. You might broaden your
perspective
Not quite. Geophysicists do not promote earthquakes, but economists promote
dieoff.
In 1972, the Club of Rome rocked the world with its book LIMITS TO GROWTH.
The book was immediately greeted by mainstream economists with outrage and
denial. Economists said that the scientists who produced the models were all
wrong -- that these dark scenarios simply couldn’t happen. Economists said
we should just put our faith in the “market” because there were no limits to
growth.
As one Nobel Prize winner put it: “The world can, in effect, get along
without natural resources.” (Solow, 1974).
As recently as 2/12/97 the ECONOMIST ran another blatant slander against
the Club of Rome:
[ http://www.economist.com/editorial/freeforall/20-12-97/xm0002.html ]
But the economists were wrong. Economics is not a science, it’s a body of
religeo-political beliefs supported by nonsensical, circular arguments.
The Club of Rome’s dark vision has now come true in the Former Soviet Union
and Africa. Billions of innocent people are going to loose their lives this
coming century because of economists (Marxist and otherwise).
"Just doing my job" was no defense during the Nuremberg trials.
Economics seems at once familiar and odd to most people. This is because
economists adopted everyday vocabulary for their discipline but have
assigned the words special meaning. In truth, economists are con artists
who say one thing but mean something else.
In recent weeks our x-local-bank-economist now
university-of-Hawaii-economic-professor has been serving as shill for the
good old boys: "Ain't growth great?"
It's high time the economists took responsibility for their crimes.
My intention is to supply activists and journalists (not academics)
ammunition to oppose the "public relation officers" of the system.
My new list is intended as a criticism against economists themselves.
http://onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/JunkEconomics
Jay Hanson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- www.dieoff.org
