On Monday, September 19, 2005 9:59 PM [PDT], Michael Perelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I thought the article was quite good, except for the uncritical > Borenstein quote. He must be the anti-Coyle. Wierd that B. does not > mention how the bankruptcies also reduce the assets of workers. It > just shows the narrow perspective of most economists. > I don't know that "narrow" is the correct word. I converse with many folks that have graduate & Ph.Ds Whereas I have 9 years of "formal" education, and have gone back to community college at the age of 51. It does give me an interesting (ok ok misanthropic) AcademiaWorld view. What I see in academia is the tendency towards... hyper-specialization(?) which in the long run, quite literally leaves the academician not seeing the forest for the trees. What was it Einstein said about the atomic bomb... something like: If I had known what they were going to do with my work I would never have participated. That's a paraphrase, forgive. But I think it illustrates what I see happen in other fields as well. You'd think Einstein would have known the potential, but his mind was... elsewhere. Leigh www.leighm.net Have you seen my newsfeeds?: http://leighmdotnet.blogspot.com/ Got RSS?: http://www.furl.net/members/leighm/rss.xml
