Re: The Mind of Paul Krugman: Mahathir, Pinochet, bad men, good policies - and the 'job of economic analysts'

[Jurriaan Bendien <quark19591@xxxxxxxxx>]

Both you and Melvin P. occasionally remind me, though, of the person who, when asked "how are you?", recounts his medical history.

 

Okay, I will try to keep it brief :-) 

 

One problem though I have is that many leftwingers nowadays use a language and conceptual apparatus from previous generations of radicals, which already assumes a stock of answers - but this I feel often prevents questions from being asked we ought to be asking, in my opinion. And so when various concepts and slogans are thrown about I often find myself thinking more deeply about them, because they seem less self-evident to me than they do to others. It's not that I want to reinvent the wheel or lecture anybody, but that I'm not satisfied with many received interpretations from the past.

 

Actually I am very limited in what I know - most of what I really want to know would takes me years to find out ! 

 

Jurriaan

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
http://mail.yahoo.com