On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 20:11:47 -0800, Michael Perelman
wrote:
Stephen Jay Gould: I am somehow less interested in
the
weight and
convolutions of Einstein's brain, than in the near
certainty that men and
women of equal talent have live and died in
cottonfields and sweatshops.
it's always
It's always troubled me that during every century, capitalism has killed
millions and millions of people in the pursuit of profit. Capital couldn't
care less about the intelligence of the dead and neither should we.
dms
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/18/03 11:11 PM
Stephen Jay Gould: I am somehow less interested in the weight and
convolutions of Einstein's brain, than in the near certainty that men
and
women of equal talent have live and died in cottonfields and
sweatshops.
I just read this off the history of economics
I think he said it in The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural
History. N.Y.: Norton, 1980, but I'm not absolutely sure. By very strange
coincidence, on the day he died, I was on a a visit at my mother's, and the
place she arranged me to stay at had a bookcase which, apart from a lot of
old
Stephen Jay Gould: I am somehow less interested in the weight and
convolutions of Einstein's brain, than in the near certainty that men and
women of equal talent have live and died in cottonfields and sweatshops.
I just read this off the history of economics list. I wonder where he
said it.
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Michael Perelman wrote:
Stephen Jay Gould: I am somehow less interested in the weight and
convolutions of Einstein's brain, than in the near certainty that men and
women of equal talent have live and died in cottonfields and sweatshops.
I just read this off the history of economics list. I
