"Americans unbalanced these days almost as a matter of policy"

[William S. Lear]

On Wednesday, August 4, 1999 at 10:18:04 (-0400) Doug Henwood writes:
>Carl Remick quoted:
>
>>Who came up with
>>this idiotic notion that there is something wrong with economic
>>security?
>
>Friedrich Hayek, an Austrian. Not all by himself, of course, but he 
>was no small part of it.

I've been reading way too much about the roots of neoclassical
economics lately for my own good, but this notion of the merit of a
constant craving for material wealth goes back through the ages to
Smith and beyond.  The whole edifice of this ridiculous "science" is
rotten to the core.

Bill