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[Carl Remick]

>>This is one of the most revealing comments I've seen you make, Brad.
>>Something that fascinates me about economics is the abstraction that
>>is involved and the way that aids in sanitizing capitalism's basic
>>grubbiness and insulating the observer from the sheer brutality that
>>fills the marketplace.  You guys seem content just to twiddle with
>>your globalistic formulas -- math is the fun part, as you say -- and
>>set them loose in the field via outfits like the IMF; then, boom!,
>>when the natives revolt and Indonesia is torn apart or the
>>WTC/Pentagon is blown up, the political scientists are left with the
>>hard work, tackling thorny moral problems that never should have
>>arisen in the first place.
>>
>>Carl
>
>Sheer brutality that fills the marketplace? Indonesia where working
>class standards of living today are four times what they were a third
>of a century ago?
>
>I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to drop out of this list. Too many
>ignorant fools, and its pushing me rightward into a place where I
>don't want to be.
>
>Brad DeLong

You've been there all along, Brad.

Carl

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