Check out Gladwell on the Shame Project.
Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University michael dot perelman at gmail.com Chico, CA 95929 530-898-5321 fax 530-898-5901 www.michaelperelman.wordpress.com -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Coyle Eugene Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2013 1:02 PM To: Progressive Economics Subject: Re: [Pen-l] Why planning is important I met and had a brief conversation with Hirschman just after Exit and Voice had come out and I was finishing grad school. I'd had a brilliant insight which would expand and improve his book. After I explained my idea briefly he politely shrugged and went on his way. I can't recall my insight but I do recall that it was brilliant. Gene On Jun 22, 2013, at 11:52 AM, Julio Huato <[email protected]> wrote: > This illustrates the reason why, in my mind, strategizing and planning > is so important. Communism will be improvised or it will not happen. > But to improvise it, to bump into it serendipitously and/or by sheer > brawn, it needs to be thought out in advance in due precision and > detail. Only to find in retrospect that the precision was > unnecessary, irrelevant, or "useless," that the details (wherein the > devil lies) were all "wrong." > > http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2013/06/24/130624crbo_book > s_gladwell?currentPage=all > > Don't hate. I cannot stand this fellow, Gladwell, either. And I > don't even care whether he gets things right. I haven't read > Hirschman's book, the subject of the piece. Hirschman though was one > of those fellows with the mental subtlety to make even the economists > understand the need for a mushier branch of the discipline labelled > "development" (not to be confused with "growth macro," although I > don't know why not confuse them). The book in question is the > Principle of the Hiding Hand (out in print). I read this Gladwell > piece as I'd read a piece of fiction. Still, if it stirs up your > neurons, it is good. > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
