Soros on truth

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Feb 7 13:16:09 PST 1999


Henry C.K. Liu wrote:


>Th pathetic aspect of a capitalistic culture is its tendency to equate wealth
>with wisdom.
>In Chinese culture, a rich man is automatically disqualified as a wise
>intellectual. Preoccupation with counting money is considereed an
>insurmountable obstacle to the task of finding truth.

There's just page after page of this stuff, all presented as if George himself had discovered it. He's going on about how equilibrium is really an inappropriate concept for economics - which is fine, but Joan Robinson did it a lot better.

Doug



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