On Oct 30, 2008, at 2:49 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081117/pollin
We're All Minskyites Now
By the way, Minsky's parents met at a dance celebrating Marx's
birthday.
I have to comment on the amusing aspect of the alternate universe that
I bring to my PEN-L readings... famous names invoke entirely different
personalities: for you Minsky is whoever you are talking about above,
but for me, its stuffy old Marvin Minsky the MIT AI proponent whose
predictions went nowhere. For you Barkley Rosser is the economist, but
for me its his father, one of the greatest logicians of the 20th
century. For you Ms. Robinson is Joan Robinson, the great economist,
while for me its Julia Robinson the even greater(*) mathematician. To
you Polanyi is Karl the economist, while I know more of his sibling
the philosopher and chemist Michael who visited "The Republic of
Science" upon me. And to me, von Mises is of course Richard von Mises,
scientist, probability theorist and philosopher of science, not his
brother Ludwig the libertarian nutcase ;-).
--ravi
(*) because of course mathematics trumps economics. ;-)
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