[lbo-talk] On the Nobel guys

Julio Huato juliohuato at gmail.com
Mon Oct 10 10:32:42 PDT 2011


Louis Proyect wrote:


> Including the fact that he is a senior fellow at the Hoover
> Institution, is pro-Friedman and anti-Keynes, and has written
> articles calling for the Europeans to be less generous with
> unemployment benefits to gain "efficiencies".

That is a dog bites man story. Everybody who is anybody in economics in the U.S. and Europe is a *bourgeois* economist unless and until proven otherwise. That should be the baseline on these lists. For recent, concrete illustrations of the manner in which capital influences what economists do, see Charles Ferguson's documentary, Inside Job.



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