>Yeah, Bill Bartlett has a point that it's the class interests of
>economists at work. But it's also the idiot reflex of orthodox
>economics: raise the price, and demand just has to go down. It does,
>it does! But it doesn't.
I would never had suggested it was the *class* interests of the economists at work. Most economists of course are merely hired hands, like scabs, who are acting in accord with their short-sighted personal interests.
Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas