On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote: > You're looking for a philosopher-king's modern equivalent, the > economist-governor? The current presidents of Mexico and Ecuador > (Felipe Calderón and Rafael Correa) are economists. The latter seems > pretty good, while the former seems to be an IMF hack. Likely Correa > does not fit the Platonic ideal of the philosopher king, however. > Nobody's perfect.
And the Cambridge/Oxford-educated economist Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India who is somewhere in between a populist and an neo-liberal. -raghu. -- Always remember to pillage BEFORE you burn. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
