kids v. economists

kelley kwalker2 at gte.net
Mon Feb 26 05:22:20 PST 2001


At 07:48 AM 2/26/01 +0000, Daniel Davies wrote:
> I don't
>disagree that economists in fact do think about people
>in homo-economicus terms, but that's a fact about the
>sociology and psycho-pathology of economists rather
>than about economic theory per se. Justin and his
>mate Hayek are absolutely right that most of the
>annoying things about markets represent problems that
>would appear under any system other than one based on
>household production. Finally, I'd note that the
>hardest-core free market nutters in existence are the
>Austrians, and they do not make the homoeconomicus
>assumption.
>
>d^2

ok, dd, so how do they conceive of people then? methodological individualism or not?



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