[lbo-talk] Rob Johnson on the economists� collective guilt

[// ravi]

On May 23, 2012, at 4:51 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
> On May 23, 2012, at 4:41 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote:
> 
>> Jim Farmelant writes:
>> 
>>> If someone were to shoot, say 95% of the economists in the USA
>>> (leaving aside a few exceptions like Mike Yates, Mike Lebowitz,
>>> and perhaps, Sam Bowles or Herb Gintis), the world would be a
>>> better place.
>> 
>> Can you name a profession for which that kind of thing isn't true?
> 
> Doctors & nurses. Physicists. Nannies. Bus drivers. Etc.

I am a pacifist, so I don’t call for shooting people (other than project managers :-)), but I think shipping 80% of doctors(*) off to a remote island where they can perform conflicting diagnoses on each other would be a signal advance!

	—ravi

(*) you could identify the 80% by whether they know how to spell Bayes Theorem or not.