[PEN-L:2611] Re: Re: Immutability of Subjects

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Brad De Long wrote:

>Economics is hard enough to do without thinking about the mutability of the
>subject too.

So let's just assume away all those complications, eh? Then you can do all
your really neat math that ends up proving nothing other than the
economist's own cleverness and membership in the priesthood. Meanwhile, the
policy-oriented economists can do everything to make sure that subjects
conform ever more closely to their assumptions - deregulate everything,
undermine all nonmonetary social bonds, etc. etc. - so that we are forced
to become the Homo economicus of their dreams. Ick.

Doug