The young associates I know at those placesa re highly paid law serfs; they keep their heads down, work long hours, and hope to make partner in 10 years. They do what they are told. The partners may call the shots, but they are, as one says, socialized. You are not gonna change THEIR minds with a crit1que of economic thought. --jks
>
>Justin, you may be right but a year or two on K Street in DC at a big ten
>or
>twenty law firm would change your mind [esp the one's that are bastions of
>the
>Right]
>
>Ian
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> > [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Justin Schwartz
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 1:44 PM
> > To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> > Subject: RE: kids v. economists
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > . If all the economists were
> > >radicalized via new analytical tools we'd still have to confront the
>poly
> > >sci,
> > >business admin/management/marketing, and law departments to change the
> > >ongoing
> > >creation of economic behavior.
> >
> > You mustn't think that law schools are all the University of Chicago,
>econ &
> > law running wild. It's true that Critical Legal Studies (legal
>psotmodernism
> > from the left) is prett quiescent, but if my experience at Ohio State
>Law
> > was typical, law profs are typically left liberals, well to the left of
> > their students, more likely than not. And you tell the students what you
> > like; they don't call the shots when they go out in the world as
>lawyers.
> >
> > --jks
> >
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