applied sensibly these quotes give the correct way to take on the "science" of say a joe stiglitz and flush the turds of say this years nobel winners ======================== here's three notes of the master on foolish "there's gotta be a good god out there somewhere" believing well intentioned numbos like todays sheep head master J THE Stiglitz ---------------------- first note “ john stuart mill with his usual eclectic logic understands how to hold at the same time the view of his father and the opposite view ..... when he announces himself as the adam smith of his day we do not know what we should be most astonished at the naivete of the man or that of the public which in good faith excepts him as such..... he bares as much resemblance to Adam S mith as america’s general Burnside does to the duke of wellington ... his original researches are neither exstensive or profound and can all be found in one little pamphlet .... second note : it is undeniable mr js mill owes his certainly”remarkable” authority almost entirely to such mistaken aattributions of originality .... on a level plain simple mounds like the junior Mr Mill look like hills the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its “ great intellects ”....... third note while it is quite right to rebuke men like js mill for the contradictions between their traditional economic dogmas and their modern tendencies never the less it would be very unjust to lump them together with the herd of vulgar economic apologists ----------------------------------------Posted by pinky at October 16, 2004 03:16 PM=================================
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