Ed, I don't have any more time left today to do more than a brief reply. I will extract one comment.
At 15:35 19/12/02 -0500, you wrote: <<<< One also has to recognize that economic concepts are ideologically based. >>>> This is where I think you are completely and utterly wrong -- at least as regards some economists. And certainly as regards myself. In 'ideological' terms, I suppose I'm much more right-wing than I am left. But, as it happens (I think I've mentioned this before) I have never voted Conservative in my life and I don't mind who knows it. In fact, I generally despise most right-wing politicians -- usually far more than I despise some (not most) left-wing politicians. Economic concepts are certainly interpreted in ideological terms by many. And many economists are certainly ideologists as well. But I treat economics as a fascinating intellectual discipline -- in exactly the same way as I regard history, or genetics, or psychology, or neuroscience, or biology, or chemistry (though, as a chemist, I find this boring!) or whatever. I regard economics in exactly the same way as Kenneth Boulding did -- whom I met and had a fascinating conversation with at Coventry Quaker Meeting House 20 years ago, not long before he died -- as an interdisciplinary subject central to the subject of man. Keith ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- Keith Hudson,6 Upper Camden Place, Bath BA1 5HX, England Tel:01225 312622/444881; Fax:01225 447727; E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
