Re: Back to slavery

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

yeah, but all those economists became interesting by doing more than mere economics. 

(Of course, economics is interesting to economists. But since accounting is interesting to accountants, that hardly proves anything.)

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Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Perelman [mailto:michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 11:17 AM
> To: PEN-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Back to slavery
> 
> 
> Jim, you might be wrong.  We have a Nobelist in the dock 
> right now?  What
> about the Harvard-Russian scandal?  One of our Chico 
> students, Khoshigian
> (sp?) has been at the center of international intrigue.  Ken Lay, for
> God's sake.  I think that we need a cable channel for economics.
> 
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 10:03:59AM -0700, Devine, James wrote:
> >
> > I'm going to have nightmares about a TV show "John Pareto, 
> Economist." Of course, people would start complaining that 
> there aren't enough ads to break up the tedium...
> >
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> > Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
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