Re: [PEN-L] Fwd: TRUE COST ECONOMICS MANIFESTO

[Sandwichman]

My objection to this "manifesto" is that it is too sweeping in its indictment and thus not operationable. Also the idle threat of "sweeping you old goats out of power" is not backed up by any process or agent. Obviously the model for this one is the dadaist, not the communist but dada had a much keener sense of its own nonsensicalness.

If anyone still needs a manifesto try the Sandwichman-ifesto.

The Sandwichman


Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>TRUE COST ECONOMICS MANIFESTO
>
>We, the undersigned, make this assertion: that you, the teachers of
>neoclassical economics and the students you graduate, have perpetuated a
>gigantic fraud upon the world.
>
>You claim to work in a pure science of formula and law, but yours is a
>social science, with all the fragility and uncertainty that this entails.
>We accuse you of pretending to be what you are not.
>
>You hide in your offices, protected by your jargon, while in the real
>world forests vanish, species perish, human lives are ruined and lost. We
>accuse you of gross negligence in the management of our planetary household.
>
>You have known since its inception that your measure of economic progress,
>the Gross Domestic Product, is fundamentally flawed and incomplete, and
>yet you have allowed it to become a global standard, reported day by day
>in every form of media. We accuse you of recklessly supporting the
>illusion of progress at the expense of human and environmental health.
>
>You have done great harm, but your time is coming to its close. The
>revolution of economics has begun, as hopeful and determined as any in our
>history. We will have a class of paradigms, we will have our moment of
>truth, and out of each will come a new economics--open, holistic, human scale.
>
>On campus after campus, we will chase you old goats out of power. Then, in
>the months and years that follow, we will begin the work of reprogramming
>the doomsday machine.
>
>Sign the manifesto at TRUECOSTECONOMICS.ORG
>
>
>
>James M. Craven
>Blackfoot Name: Omahkohkiaayo-i'poyi
>Professor/Consultant,Economics;Business Division Chair
>Clark College, 1800 E. McLoughlin Blvd.
>Vancouver, WA. USA 98663
>Tel: (360) 992-2283; Fax: (360) 992-2863
>"The people who cast the votes decide nothing.
>The people who count the votes decide everything."
>Josef Stalin
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>
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>FREE LEONARD PELTIER!!
>
>


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