On 3/2/08, Julio Huato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's solid advice to students of the social sciences to master the > "same traditional" (i.e. the existing) mathematical models of the > economy. That's premise of any serious critique of economics. It's > not only for others to take you seriously. It's for us to take > ourselves seriously.
Sure, in the best of all possible worlds it would be. Frankly, though, I don't have much faith that a serious critique of economics based on mastery of the prevailing mathematical models would be of much interest to more than a handful of keeners. I've read a few such critiques and when I mention them I might as well be talking to a fence post. One should never take oneself too seriously. And never, never underestimate the energy people can expend on blocking messages that undermine their established opinions. So, while in that proverbial best of all possible worlds it would be solid advice to master the traditional models, in such a world many of those models would have discarded as soon as they saw the light of day. -- Sandwichman _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
