[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> PS. On re-reading this piece below I realize that it lacks oomph. But then
> again economics is rather dull. As a form of plumbing for society it can
> enable the human spirit to soar or it can crush same. Economics alone
> should be considered as background, as infrastructure.
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Economics is dull?
Surely a study of bourgeois economics along the likes of C.Wright Mills
would not be dull.
But what could be more exciting than studying the transformation of
mere raw material of nature into products of human creative
work? In the labor theory of value, one term is "labor" and
the other term is *value* --> value is everything that means anything
to anyone, i.e., everythingn that is in some way
not dull (meaningless).
So I think economics should be quite exciting, and not just to
finance-engineers of leveraged buyouts [that's really
meta-economics: an area of 2nd order theory which takes the
production of value through labor as its 1st order object
domain -- a kind of economic integral and differential calculus]....
But there's another way economics is exciting: You get to
play russian roulette with prison time, and, in the
case of Mr. Fastow, he got handcuffed today --> I'm sure
the agents explained that was the only way they could assure
his safety until things quiet down and he
can go back to doing the things he likes to do in life:
protective custody.
Surely auditing should be an exciting occupation these
days? Find that fraud! You may only be a $60,000 accountant,
but you get a chance to bring down a zillionaire wheeler-dealer!
Better than hunting elephants or whales!
\brad mccormick
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that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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