Re: Paul D. on this year's Nobel

[Paul Davidson <pdavidson@xxxxxxx>]

At 10:08 AM 10/11/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> After following his postings on PKT
> during the past two years, I have come
> to view Paul Davidson as one of the few top-rank economic scholars
> who,
> having the courage of his convictions, has placed the cause of
> better
> economics above that of self.
>
> And, while the precise shape of such better economics has yet to come
> into
> focus, I agree with what I take to be Paul's view that the cause will not
> be
> served by, as the saying goes, rearranging the chairs on the Titanic's
> sun
> deck.
>
> That was also my own approach in my Ph. D. thesis work at Harvard in
> the
> 1970s.  When word thereof passed through the grapevine to my
> IMF
> supervisors, the single most rapid rise of any young economist on the
> IMF
> staff came to an abrupt halt.
>
> Hence my deep conviction that there is NO place for intellectual
> compromise
> with the self-serving defenders of the status quo in either academia
> or
> institutions such as the IMF - all SOBs in that respect!
>
> That, I take it, is also Paul's position.


Thank you Gunnar.  That is my position.

Paul

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