>Wonderful notion. Where did he discuss that?
>Carrol Cox wrote:
>> This is analogous to Kenneth Burke's argument that official rhetoric
>> is always tended to counterbalance the real policy. He says that as
>> soon as Roosevelt made a speech attacking "Economic Royalists"
>> he knew the banking interests were safe, because if Roosevelt
>> had really intended to attack such a major capitalist institution he
>> would have done so under the cover of pro-banker rhetoric.
This is the "Law of Inverse Relevance" from the TV series "Yes Minister" to us Brits:
The less a Minister intends to do about something, the more he has to talk about it. The more a Minister intends to do about something, the less he can afford to do about it.
http://www.yesminister.demon.nl/
dd
-- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
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