ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. We have not had too much nastiness lately, but it just detracts from the list.
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 08:21:24AM -0500, Paul wrote: > Can we try to focus on the issues (and avoid ad hominus personal > attacks)? I find nastiness winds up with discussions that waste lots of > energy/bandwith, turns a lot of people away, and discourages others from > participating. Thanks. > > Paul > > > John G. writes: > >Sometimes I weary of Devine pedantically impressing his modes of production > >stamp upon messy empirical details. > > or > > >Big fat yawn... I've read this before. That's b/c these are crib notes of > >David Harvey's _A Brief History of Neo-Liberalism_. How pretentious... using > >Pinochet's death as an excuse to pontificate about the archeology of > >neo-liberalism, with nary an original thought. It's not like he/she HAD to > >do this, like some of us phone in the work effort when the mandates of paid > >academic labor call. This is a VOLUNTEER job. At the very least he/she could > >plagiarize an innovative analysis of an understudied phenomenon. But which > >self-identified neo-Marxist doesn't have his/her diagnosis of the 1970's > >crisis (most of which are numbingly familiar)? ..... -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com
