Re: Neoclassical bizarreness!!!

[Leigh Meyers <leighcmeyers@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday, September 19, 2005 9:59 PM [PDT],
Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I thought the article was quite good, except for the uncritical
> Borenstein quote.  He must be the anti-Coyle.  Wierd that B. does not
> mention how the bankruptcies also reduce the assets of workers.  It
> just shows the narrow perspective of most economists.
> 

I don't know that "narrow" is the correct word.
I converse with many folks that have graduate & Ph.Ds

Whereas I have 9 years of "formal" education, and have gone back 
to community college at the age of 51. It does give me an interesting 
(ok ok misanthropic) AcademiaWorld view.

What I see in academia is the tendency towards... hyper-specialization(?)
which in the long run, quite literally leaves the academician not seeing the
forest for the trees. What was it Einstein said about the atomic bomb...
something like: If I had known what they were going to do with my work
I would never have participated. That's a paraphrase, forgive. But I think
it illustrates what I see happen in other fields as well. You'd think Einstein
would have known the potential, but his mind was... elsewhere.

Leigh
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