> [Matthew LaClair is a high school student in Kearny, N.J.] Wow! If only ten percent of university professors had the integrity, gumption and intelligence of this one high school student...
> Only after the story became national news did the school district > begin to take us seriously... <snip> > What is most distressing is not that some public school teachers > preach their religion, or that some authors put politics ahead of > education. It is that it is so rare for anyone to call them on it. Thanks to Google Books, I'm now sifting through a century of economics textbooks to document the rise, mutation and consolidation of the lump-of-labor fallacy, which is falsely attributed as a "cherished belief" of trade unions and workers. I have nearly 300 citations. Very rarely does anyone point out the lack of evidence for the claim. Having now published two articles analyzing the contradictions and unscientific basis of the claim, I patiently await the awakened consensus of those in the economics field that perhaps there has indeed been some bias in the past by economists with regard to the issue of reduced working time. Betting against a century of textbook lore, I've even offered a $10,000 prize to anyone who can conclusively refute my debunking of the fallacy claim. Now if only I could enlist the support of ten or fifteen economics professors for a campaign to set the record straight on the economics of working time. -- Sandwichman _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
