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Thanks, Keith. What fine looking elder
statesmen! The picture arrived and is now in my permanent
collection.
Ed
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Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 1:37
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Subject: RE: Risk-taking (wasRe:
[Futurework]http://www.glaesernemanufaktur.de/
Ed,
All is lost! Harry, the only person on
FW, who has met me in the flesh, knows that the person in the photo on my
website isn't me!
I'm going to try an experiment of attaching a photo
to you and Harry of Harry and me last summer, with only a copy going to
FW. The last time I sent a photo attachment via FW directly , it didn't pass.
If this doesn't work, then I'll send you a photo separately (if you really
need to see it!).
Keith
At 17:56 01/01/2004 -0800, you
wrote:
Ed,
I was referring to Keiths obviously fake
picture. He probably got a model in to pose for him.
Knowing you dont know is the beginning of
wisdom.
Harry
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From: Ed Weick
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Sent: Wednesday,
December 31, 2003 2:49 PM
To: Harry Pollard; 'Keith
Hudson'
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re:
Risk-taking (wasRe:
[Futurework]http://www.glaesernemanufaktur.de/
I joked with Ed
that to the economist, reality is a special casebut I fear it may not be a
joke. Incidentally, Ed is a good example of an economist with a career of
meeting reality.
Ive seen your photograph on your website. Its a picture of a
handsome, distinguished, and obviously erudite individual.
Who did you get to pose for
it?
Harry
If you're referring to me, Harry, it was my imaginary
good and erudite twin. We are both imaginary. To him, I am the
imaginary evil and boorish one. We both imagine ourselves to be
economists, one good, one bad (in the moral sense; neither of us are very
good in knowing much about the subject).
Ed
- ----- Original Message -----
- From: Harry Pollard
- To: 'Keith Hudson'
- Cc: 'Ed
Weick' ; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 3:46
PM
- Subject: RE: Risk-taking (wasRe:
[Futurework]http://www.glaesernemanufaktur.de/
- Keith,
- What! No-one has yet invented a bed bottom warmer? That
seems more urgent than a better mouse trap.
- We exchanged:
- HARRY: This seems to indicate we reason pretty well that our choices
aren't bad. We are right most of the time - maybe only 6 out of 10 but
enough. If we reason badly, we are not likely to survive.
- >>>>
- KEITH: Non sequitur old chap. The fact that we got by with
faulty or deficient reasoning in hunter-gatherer days doesn't necessary
mean that we can do so today.
- It also doesnt not mean that we can do so today. (Wow! Theres a
contrivance.)
- Perhaps as hunter gatherers we relied more on instinct. However, we
have sloughed our instincts and I would agree with Ashley Montagu that
they have gone. We have replaced them with reasonable choice.
- While an instinctive response is the perfect reply to a given
stimulus, a problem arises when the stimulus changes. With Man, when the
stimulus changes, so does his reasoned decision.
- It is logical to assume that were his decisions to be mostly wrong his
breeding timewould be reduced and his survival through his descendents
would also be reduced, or ended.
- So, we who are left who are breeding and expanding must be better
reasoners.
- However, it makes sense for those of us who are not very good at
reasoning to hand over the job to those who are better at it. This is
where we run into trouble. We have set up a system where not only is our
thinking done for us, but we have no control over those doing the
job.
- This is bad reasoning. Worse, it has become the norm and may yet cast
us into the deeps.
- Im not really bad-mouthing economists. In fact, as Ive said, I think
that they tend to be superior. But, I would add that their discipline is a
mess. They have erected mountains of scholarship on inadequate premises
and we are all paying for it.
- My comment with regard to perfectmodels stands. Joan Robinson made a
career out of it. Yet, people going to market with inadequate information
is the norm. The action of the price mechanism is to keep them moving
toward perfection, but they wont achieve it. They will still buy the
cheapest and besttomatoes not knowing there are better and cheaper
tomatoes down the street. However, that isnt some kind of economic
failure.
- Its reality.
- I joked with Ed that to the economist, reality is a special casebut I
fear it may not be a joke. Incidentally, Ed is a good example of an
economist with a career of meeting reality.
- Ive seen your photograph on your website. Its a picture of a handsome,
distinguished, and obviously erudite individual.
- Who did you get to pose for it?
- Harry
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