On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 02:32:59 -0400 Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com>
writes:
> "Several academic studies have found that there is a link between
> education
> levels and civic behavior. But a new study from the Federal Reserve
> Bank of
> New York
> <http://www.newyorkfed.org/research/staff_reports/sr450.pdf> has
> concluded that how much economics people study can influence their
> political
> activity and how they spend their spare time."
>
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/07/does-studying-economics-make
-you-more-republican
>
> --
I think that Michael Yates has more intelligently addressed the issues on his blog that the NY Times piece attempted to cover. See:
http://blog.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org/2010/01/08/the-neoclassical-econo mic-dogma-part-i/ http://blog.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org/2010/01/12/the-neoclassical-econo mic-dogma-part-2/ http://blog.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org/2010/01/19/radical-economics-a-cl earer-look-at-things-part-1/ http://blog.cheapmotelsandahotplate.org/2010/01/26/radical-economics-a-cl earer-look-at-things-part-2/
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