[lbo-talk] What's the deal with conservatives, economists, and the minimum wage?

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"Hired hands" -- like . . . . employees?  Scabs
indeed. Whose strike are they breaking? Typical
Bartlett, self-assured, arrogant, and bone-headedly,
incurably wrong. NCEs may be vulgar apologists and
crude or sophisticated ideologists. But in my lexicon
-- maybe it's different in Tasmania -- a scab is
someone who crosses a picket line to work when there
is a strike on. Blacklegs, the Brits said when I was
living there (also scabs). As far as I am aware, there
is no strike of academics going on for NCEs to break
by scabbing. If there were, I'm sure they'd be the
first to do it. But there isn't, so they're not.

--- Bill Bartlett <billbartlett at aapt.net.au> wrote:


> At 9:20 AM -0500 18/1/07, Doug Henwood wrote:
> 
> >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
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