[lbo-talk] Decoding Economic Ideology

[michael perelman]

Molière's 1670 his play, The Bourgeois Gentleman, presented before the 
court of Louis XIV, mocked a foolish, social climbing merchant.  In his 
effort to remake himself, the merchant takes lessons to help him pass as 
an aristocrat.  In a basic lesson on language, he is both surprised and 
delighted to learn he had been speaking prose all his life without 
knowing it.  Almost three and a half centuries later, much of the world 
finds itself speaking a different language    economics    also without 
full awareness.

more at:
http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com/2010/12/21/decoding-economic-ideology/

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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA
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