[PEN-L:29882] Re: Re: dead economists

["Ellen Frank" <frank@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Gil!


pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>Ellen, here you go:
>
>The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are
>right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly
>understood.  Indeed the world is ruled by little else.  Practical men,
>who
>believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences,
>are
>usually the slave of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who
>hear
>voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic
>scribbler
>of a few years back.
>
>Defunctionally yours,
>
>Gil
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