[PEN-L:9411] Re: Re: My Ideologies

["ann li" <annzl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Henry wrote:

"What do we do with white mice that eat black cats?
Answer: Put them through creative destruction."


Without getting involved in these exchanges over the PRC etc., I would like
to have the above explained to me, please?

Ann





----- Original Message -----
From: Brad De Long <delong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 1999 11:40 PM
>Subject: [PEN-L:9398] Re: My Ideologies


> >Brad De Long wrote:
> >
> >>Maybe I'm hopelessly old-fashioned, but I had always thought of
> >>"ideology" as something different from "knowledge"
> >
> >Which just proves you're in the grip of ideology!
> >
> >
> >Doug
>
> To which of my ideologies are you referring?
>
> (A) My--ideological--belief that the liberal ideological commitment
> to the autonomous subject is a good (although false) stance to adopt
> because it is less likely than other stances to lead to horrible
> crimes committed in the name of Reason or Utopia?
>
> (B) My--ideological--belief that it is better to inquire whether a
> cat catches mice than whether it is red or white?
>
> :-)
>
>
> Brad DeLong
>
>
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> "Now 'in the long run' this [way of summarizing the quantity theory
> of money] is probably true.... But this long run is a misleading
> guide to current affairs. **In the long run** we are all dead.
> Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in
> tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long
> past the ocean is flat again."
>
> --J.M. Keynes
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