Eugene Coyle wrote: > Gintis wrote quite a bit about it, original stuff, but perhaps he is > regarded as on the left.
At the time he wrote it, he was on the left. > ... Duesenberry didn't go on to > overthrow the profession. All the textbooks should long ago have been > pulped. Instead, Duesenberry was largely forgotten. Friedman was pretty explicit that the purpose of his "permanent income hypothesis" was to pulp Duesenberry because the latter strayed beyond the "official" boundaries of NC economics. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
