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Tony Brewer writes: 
 
>>Is reswitching still important? One should ask: important for what purpose?<< 
 
Tony then gives us two possible purposes. 
 
Let me suggest a third -- the study of economics as the study of institutional and
intellectual pathology.  Now and again reswitching comes up in this sort of context.  And
this sort of context has multiple dimensions -- sociological,
theoretical, normative, political, cultural, etc.  For those outside of the institutional
culture/reward system of the economics profession in America & Britain, this context is
among the more significant and interesting ways in which reswitching is important.
 
Greg Ransom 
 
 
 
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