my week with the conservatives

[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am spending the week at a pair of history of economics meetings at
George Mason University.  The participants in the first one are almost
universally very conservative, but they are, with some exceptions, open
to dialogue in a very appealing way.

One of the people paraphrased T. S. Eliot in describing groupings of
people who share a common idiom and who find it profitable to disagree
with one another.  Even though some of them have no interest whatsoever
in Marx, they went out of their way to make my argument stronger.

All in all, I was very impressed.

--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929

Tel. 530-898-5321
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