Re: [Pen-l] Shemano on consumer behavior

["Jim Devine" <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

Gunder's not on my list here becuse unlike Sen _et al_, he wasn't respectable.

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Charles Brown
<charlesb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> From: "Jim Devine"
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>  My main point has been
> --- and is --- that there's a difference between the Ekon (the vast
> majority of economists, who cling to individualistic metaphysics) and
> the more sophisticated members of the profession such as Arrow, Sen, &
> Frank, who may not be socialists (as I define the term) but are much
> better than the Ekon on the issue of individualistic metaphysics. That
> is, much of the official _canon_ of economics (which officially would
> include such matters as experimental economics) is not really accepted
> by the textbook-writers and most public economists.
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> ^^^^
> CB:  Nice concept and term that "individualistic metaphysics" .
> Like Marx's  "Robinsonade" after Robinson Crusoe, the solitary producer.
> I'd like to use this thinking through Ekon vs. Arrow , Sen, Gunder
> Frank.
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