Stop the World, I Want to Get Off

[myturn@xxxxxxxx (John Gelles)]

	          STOP THE WORLD (OF WORDS),
	                    I WANT TO GET OFF

	So what do you read on PKT?  Like currently?

	     There seems to be discussion of several issues:
	       o  Environmental Economics and resource depletion
	       o  International Trade and foreign exchange control
	       o  National Income Accounting and measuring unemployment
	       o  Georgist anti-Keynesian attack on cheap money for real growth
	       o  You see the  Food, stop talking Money
	       o  Read my site, I'm lonely
	
	Anything intelligible?

	     Probably not. Well, the resource thing is readable. Some of the
	     guys would use the law to shape the future. Others think price
	     alone will do the job.

	Anything else?
	     Not really.

	So, why do you read it?

	     I'm with Soros and Rohatyn. I know there's a problem with poverty,
	     pollution, capitalism and democratic processes intended to solve it,
	     and I'm not socialist.  So I'm waiting for Galbraith to solve the
problem.

	How often does he write?
	     Not often.

	What about Davidson?

	     I like him.  In a crunch, he's always there.  But he's busy.  You
	     have to read his books.

	Wray?  Moore?  Did you ever get a list of who are actually
	earning a living as economists and committed to Keynesian
	thought?

	     No. I know some are Marxist, some Institutionalist,
	     some anti-Neo-pro-Whatever.  One is Living Systems
	     (I think -- remember general systems?).  Most of the writers
	     seem to be non-Keynesian hobbyists (I almost miss that
	     wild Hayekian).

	You ought to stay with the non-fiction best sellers with the
	monster general theories. They know what's going to happen
	PKT doesn't filter the trivia. They live on it.

	     OK, no general insults, please.  We get enough of that.  You
	     can't leave a guy alone on a keyboard five minutes but fresh
	     remarks are spelled out.

	How come Louise doesn't light up the commentary?
	     Well, it not exactly a creative writing forum.
	Oh.