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In a message dated 97-08-16 14:37:32 EDT, Michael writes: 
 
<< I have met so many bright and motivated students who felt that they  
 were repeatedly required to 'pay their dues' again and again by not  
 only mastering, but actually doing original work at the  
 ever-expanding technical frontier of orthodox economic modelling,  
 before being allowed to 'play the blues' and get down to serious  
 theoretical criticism of orthodoxy. Too often the result is that they  
 either quit economics in favour of another social science, or perhaps  
 philosophy, or they put aside the critical enthusiams of their  
 'youth' and immerse themselves in orthodoxy's 'normal' science.  
  
 Michael Williams  >> 
 
Is this account of the attitudes and professional  
strategies of students in economics one that rings  
a bell with others on the list?  It would help me to get some 
idea of just how cynical the profession has currently 
become .. or just how closed is it to independent and creative 
thinking .. especially as this pertains to those within the  
earliest reaches of the professional pipeline. 
 
Greg Ransom   
Dept. of Philosophy, UC-Riverside 
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