On Mar 7, 2009, at 6:31 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
Bob Pollin told me a story about how he was once on a panel with
Davidson, and when Bob said something friendly about Marx, Davidson
picked up the blue plastic water pitcher sitting on the table and
demanded that Bob explain how a central planner could know how many
of these pitchers to make, and in what color.
I hope this Davidson chap has done some work in Complexity Theory,
else he is going to have a tough time explaining why a species that
otherwise takes pride in its greatest unique creation, science, is
floored by as trivial a problem as the estimation of how may pitchers
to make (any worse than some unintentional contingent mechanism would).
It always puzzles me that among the Left can be found the strongest
"defenders" and worshippers of "science", but yet they cave to such
[what seems to me] trivial challenges. What is this, "crowd-sourcing"
for pointy-heads? ;-)
--ravi
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