Ted Winslow wrote:
Unconsciously anchored delusional thinking can't be corrected simply by pointing out that it's delusional.
Go ahead. Try and psychoanalyze the economists without their consent. As far as I'm concerned (given my job), I am mostly concerned with the newer generations, students of economics, colleagues, etc. But, whatever, I am not saying that economists (or humans beings, in general), especially when a strong material interest steers their minds towards rationalizing the status quo, are easy to persuade. All I'm saying is that we won't know how easy or difficult it is persuade anybody until we try. It seems obvious to me that persuading smart young people is worth the try. However, a minimal condition is that the effort is honest, in the sense that one seriously grapples with the subject matter that one is critiquing.
