"The central intuition of Greek tragedy, as of psychoanalysis, is that there is one, unique fact which each individual anxiously struggles to conceal from himself, and this is the very fact that is the root of his identity." -- Harold Rosenberg
On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 8:48 PM, Tom Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > The answer, I believe, can be found in a tragedy by Sophocles. The > collective identity of economists is entirely consumed in the act of > denying who they are. That is to say, who they are is BOTH who they insist > they aren't and who they have become as a consequence of precisely that > denial. Not entirely an original thought. Reading Harold Rosenberg's > theatre criticism puts these ideas in my head. I will have more to say on > this later. > > On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Eugene Coyle <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Economists are so firm in denial of jobs being hard to find because to >> admit otherwise is to concede the market isn't working to always keep >> workers fully employed. The market not working, you say? Impossible. > > -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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