On 10/10/2011 1:32 PM, Julio Huato wrote:
> Louis Proyect wrote:
>
>> Including the fact that he is a senior fellow at the Hoover
>> Institution, is pro-Friedman and anti-Keynes, and has written
>> articles calling for the Europeans to be less generous with
>> unemployment benefits to gain "efficiencies".
>
> That is a dog bites man story.  Everybody who is anybody in economics
> in the U.S. and Europe is a *bourgeois* economist unless and until
> proven otherwise.  That should be the baseline on these lists.  For
> recent, concrete illustrations of the manner in which capital
> influences what economists do, see Charles Ferguson's documentary,
> Inside Job.

The operative categories are not "bourgeois" and "non-bourgeois", 
it would seem, but rather "liberal" and "conservative". The other 
awardee seemed liberal while this guy was not, for what that's worth.
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