--- Willy Greenfields <filthydirtyunwashed at yahoo.com>
wrote:
> [A thesis so heretical obviously can only be
> expressed
> with equations.]
>
> View of Iraqi Conflict Considered
> For Prestigious Economic Award
> By JON E. HILSENRATH
> Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
>
> Why do they hate us so much? The question nagged at
> Edward Glaeser, a 35-year-old Harvard University
> economist, after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist
> attacks
> on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
>
> Hatred is hardly the typical domain for economic
> research. But Mr. Glaeser approached the question
> from
> an economist's perspective. He studied everything
> from
> Nazi anti-Semitism to American racism to
> anti-Americanism in the Arab world and wrote down
> complex mathematical formulas for the supply and
> demand of hate. In the process, he found a
> supply-side
> thread: Hatred was often supplied, or promoted, by
> groups that profited politically by fueling the
> emotion. To understand hate, the economist reasoned,
> you have to understand the politics that allow
> hate-filled groups to supply it and benefit from it.
>
> "An enterprising political entrepreneur of hate
> whips
> people up into a frenzy against a group that is seen
> as a threat," says Mr. Glaeser.
>
>
>
>
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