As I've said on pen-l, this is a very good book (fun!). One problem I
have is that, despite his title, the university's Chauncey Gardner
(Mark Winner) isn't really an economist as much as a business
professor (and contrary to Larson, he's not an expert of vending
machines). The economist in Jane Smiley's MOO was more on target. (He
is a man whose “first principle was that all men, not excluding
himself, had an insatiable desire for consumer goods.” And he puts it
into practice.) Also, in my experience, the book applies better to
research universities (or places that pretend to be such) more than to
small liberal arts places.
Does anyone know of any good spot-on portrayals of economists in literature?
Louis Proyect wrote:
> Counterpunch Weekend Edition
> June 18 - 20, 2010
> Daniel S. Greenberg's Tech Transfer
> More Academic Fun
>
> By CHARLES R. LARSON
>
> Tech Transfer: Science, Money, Love, and the Ivory Tower
> By Daniel S. Greenberg
> Kanawha Press, 270 pp., $11.45
>
--
Jim Devine
"Those who take the most from the table
Teach contentment.
Those for whom the taxes are destined
Demand sacrifice.
Those who eat their fill speak to the hungry
of wonderful times to come.
Those who lead the country into the abyss
Call ruling too difficult
For ordinary folk." – Bertolt Brecht.
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