[PEN-L:30549] RE: RE: Armey honors economics

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

Title: RE: [PEN-L:30548] RE: Armey honors economics

But notice that all of these people are crypto-commies.
JD

-----Original Message-----
From: Forstater, Mathew
To: pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 9/25/2002 8:53 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:30548] RE: Armey honors economics

Hey, I take issue that economics is not an ?occupation of the heart?!
Samuelson had a book Economics from the Heart, Blinder had one Hard
Heads, Soft Hearts. I think they are both even Jewish.
 
Of course, Nancy Folbre has The Invisible Heart, which sounds like it
might overlap somewhat with Armey?s separation of economics and
?occupations of the heart?, only unlike Armey she sees it as a bad
thing, not good. (although she may be thinking more of markets than
economics?)
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Devine, James [mailto:jdevine@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 10:26 AM
To: Pen-l (E-mail)
Subject: [PEN-L:30546] Armey honors economics
 
According to SLATE, major U.S. newspapers report > remarks made recently
by retiring House Majority Leader, Dick Armey (R-Tex.). Speaking at an
event last Friday in Florida, Armey said, "I always see two Jewish
communities in America: one of deep intellect and one of shallow,
superficial intellect. Conservatives have a deeper intellect and tend to
have occupations of the brain in fields like engineering, science and
economics," while liberals gravitate to "occupations of the heart."
After a couple of Democrats kvetched about the comments, Armey explained
that he didn't mean to offend anybody, it's just that "liberals are
generally not very bright."<
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