Louie, still dishing up the "i'm just an ordinary guy who knows
better than anyone what is radical and just goes about being one
in an unassuming ordinary way" talk, i note.
the list is called pen-l. progressive ECONOMISTS net list. got it.
it is not unreasonable that economists might talk about things that relate
to their ambit. the real debate i suppose is whether they are progressive.
so talking about computer programming (although it would interest me) would
seem a bit odd on pen-l.
>
>Ordinarily, I would agree with you, but what in the hell does Peter Burns
>think that he is trying to accomplish by asking me these sorts of
>questions. Do you think the average person is going to have the sort of
>grasp of pricing theory minutiae that a professional economist has? One of
>the reasons I get steamed by these sorts of questions from Burns, Rosser,
>Mitchell, etc. is that they smack of academic insider knowledge. This is
>what these people do for a living.
>
>I could throw around computer programming concepts with a bunch of people
>who haven't been doing it for 28 years like me and they would say, "Wow,
>how does he know all that".
>
kind regards
bill
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