Random Thoughts on Misreading and Misunderstanding

[michael at ecst.csuchico.edu]

Phil Mirowski has shown that the founders of modern economics engaged in a
willful misreading of physics when they appropriated physics' mathematics.

I cannot imagine anybody not reading Althusser only because of his poor
mathematical understanding of overdetermination.

For a time, I worked as a translator in the Dutch Institute of Statistics
even though my understanding of the language was poor.  My
misunderstandings were a constant source of inspiration to me --
mistaken ideas can often be the source of great inspiration.

Didn't people take LSD in the 60's to scramble their brains in search of
inspiration?

 -- 
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929

Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu