On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote: > I forgot to add: the abstraction and unreality of much of economics > and econometrics makes a lot of economic research totally useless to > the wealthy vested interests which Madrick refers to. But I guess they > see that as the cost of having so much political support from > economists.
This agrees with what I have long suspected: the main use of mainstream economics is as propaganda. And in indoctrinating society about the virtues of selfishness. -raghu. -- "His credit rating is so bad that his junk mail comes postage due." - Anonymous _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
