> > From: "Suresh Naidu" <antikafka at hotmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: kids v. economists
>
>> I'm a firm believer in tearing down the master's house
>> with his own tools, so I like using mathematics in economics...If the
>> bourgeois economists like it so much, lets pin them to the wall with it.
>
>I have yet to take the course, but at American U., Robin Hahnel (a math guy,
>from what I hear) teaches a Political Economy course where topics are
>discussed using a standard neoclassical framework, but opposite conclusions
>are reached (i.e. beating them at their own game). That is why, I presume,
>it is also called Alternate Micro.
And the neoclassical establishment doesn't give a damn, just as Eugene Fama is unlikely to become a raving feminist because the patriarch is like an equity holder.
Doug