Brad registered a sense that he was profoundly depressed by contemplating the problems he spoke of. In everyday language, I suspect that means he cares, not that he doesn't care.
kelley
>>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
>
>Now, I'll let you numbers jocks get back to that fascinating and oh so
>timely thread on probability theory that has had you so engrossed.
>
>Carl
>
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