Ed Weick wrote:
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brad McCormick, Ed.D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Ray E. Harrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Sunday, August 09, 1998 9:19 AM
> Subject: Re: What planet are you proposing for this experiment?
>
> >But I think the concludion is less obvious: We *need*
> >economists and accountants. We need them *desparately*
> >(and actuaries, too, etc.). What we need like a hole in the
> >head is the ideology of "homo economicus".
[snip]
>
> As a one time practitioner of the dismal science, and with some continuing
> interests in it, I love this kind of thing. What I learned very early in my
> career is that people do not want facts, they would far rather have
> illusions - or, in the parlance of the bureaucracy, "smoke and mirrors".
> When I was young and naive, I tried very hard to present my superiors with
> facts, only to be told that those could not possibly be facts since they
> didn't square with prevailing opinions, especially those held by politicians
> who "had their ear to the ground". Professionals other than economists, but
> supported by economists, also tried to present their superiors and political
> masters with facts, but they too were ignored. The citizens didn't want
> them.
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How sad for us all! But
I was particularly struck by two words:
my superiors
The most remarkable of all, of course, being
the ones who never even
had to deploy their *golden
parachutes*!
\brad mccormick
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Mankind is not the master of all the stuff that exists, but
Everyman (woman, child) is a judge of the world.
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