Re: Today's Wall Street Journal on Mankiw's new textbook

["Mason A. Clark" <masonc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Louise Davidson suggested:

> PKers would love to have discourse with the establishment,
> the point is, they disregard completely what PKers do.
>
>It is against their religion to accept PK thought. It doesn't fit into their
>scheme.
>
>So, how do we proceed? To keep working - - - -

   It may be the year 2098 before PK thought is accepted.  Hell may
   by then be frozen over or Antartica warmed into Tennessee.

   In the meantime, it behooves all the PK horses to use every
   opportunity to challenge wrong thinking.  Letters to editors, well
   written, are accepted more often than not.

   A few words of advise (it's free):

   Attacking does NOT work.  It only strengthens defenses.

     "We are not to shock them by rudely affirming what
     we are satisfied is disagreeable, but are to
     conceal our design, and beginning at a distance,
     bring them slowly on to the main point and having
     gained the more remote ones we get the nearer
     ones  of consequence."      Adam Smith

  Perhaps we can find hope in the new Nobel Prize
  for literature.   Who will write the great American
  economic satire?

           Mason C