[lbo-talk] Economists are the forgotten guilty men

[Mark Bennett]

This was interesting take on the theological aspect of modern economics:

http://www.amazon.com/Economics-As-Religion-Samuelson-Chicago/dp/0271022841/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1236277334&sr=1-1

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Eubulides <autoplectic at gmail.com> wrote:


> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 8:26 AM, KJ <kjinkhoo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > FWIW, since it appears not to have been noticed:
> >
> > W Buiter: The unfortunate uselessness of most ’state of the art’
> > academic monetary economics
> >
> >
> http://blogs.ft.com/maverecon/2009/03/the-unfortunate-uselessness-of-most-state-of-the-art-academic-monetary-economics/
>
> ==============
>
> Uh, no.
>
> It was posted by yours untruly yesterday with a different heading
> which pointed out a theological motif ------markets as a
> substitute/replacement for  god [who died around the time that the
> economics profession took off] and economists as LaPlacean
> calculators.
>
> Ian
>
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