worlds collide

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Feb 27 07:04:37 PST 2001


Justin Schwartz wrote:


>>When I first came to Columbus, Ohio, its "downtown" had pennants
>>flying all over the place, proclaiming to all: "downtown."
>>Christian's maxim -- "if you have to say it, you're not it" -- holds
>>true, I'm afraid.
>
>Like: political science, computer science, management science. If it
>has to _call itself_ science, it's not. So it is very sneaky of
>economics to _not call itself science._

Ah, but there's the Nobel - officially "The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel."

Doug



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