On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > Assuming that even criminals believe in what they preach, one can find a > less moralistic explanation. A profession lives by thyose it recruits > into its rannks from undergraduates. What about economics as now taught > would attract radical students to join the profession? If those > attracted to it are overwhelmingly conservative, it doesn't take any > particular direct pressure on economists to elicit conservative results. >
We might add that this sort of thing is not peculiar to economics either. A couple of years back, there was a big controversy about whether string theorists are monopolizing theoretical physics by intimidation and indoctrination: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?cat=2 It is naive to think that any academic or scientist is only "searching for the truth". The truth can be a very complicated thing.. However it is definitely true that academics are motivated less by money as compared to businessmen. -raghu. -- Did you hear about the dyslexic Satanist? He sold his soul to Santa. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
