Please be careful: was Re: reparations & exploitation

[Justin Schwartz]

To be quite clear, _I_ didn't say Gintis had been booted, and I agree with 
the "heresies" in the quoted passage. Not with vouchers, though. Saw another 
copy of your book on The Origins of Capitalism  at a Borders in Deerfield, 
IL (a wealthy suburb) today, Michael. --jks
>
>Just for the record, Herb Gintis was never booted off pen-l.  He was 
>subscribed
>for awhile.  When people disagreed with him, he cried foul and finally left
>because he felt that people were picking on him unfairly.  Most of the
>disagreement with him revolved, if I remember correctly, around his support 
>for
>school vouchers.
>
>Justin Schwartz wrote:
>
> > >I haven't seen such heresy since Herb Gintis got booted off pen-l for
> > >nonchalantly (well, thats probably not quite the right word) suggesting
> > >that all the talk about exploitative production and unequal 
>distribution
> > >was so much hogwash in the absence of an economic blueprint that might
> > >could sustain both a high standard of living and an equitable
> > >distribution.
>
>--
>
>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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