Re: Heterodoxers are crackpots

[Paul Downward <P.M.Downward@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is it April the 1st in the US?

On Thu, 22 Aug 2002 16:54:50 -0700 Mason Clark <masonc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Ok, I got your attention.
>
> You should stop using that word.  Sound, modern economics
> cannot be "heterodox" -- it's simply "correct"  "wrong"  or
> "currently controversial until tested".  "Modern" might work.
>
> Erroneous older economics is "obsolete"  "discredited"  "wrong".
> Or "classical"  "neo-classical"  or whatever indicates out-dated.
>
> "Heterodoxic economics"  means  "nuts talking to each other."
> (*These* are the obsolete economists.)
>
>        Mason     words matter!
>

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