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Fri Mar 31 17:19:13 2006
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Robin Foliet Neill wrote: 
 
> It is not that Economics has not lived up to Positivism.  It is 
> that no discipline has.  Pure positivism remains an aspiration 
> everywhere.  That most laudable search for an objective social science is 
> still unfulfilled. 
 
"So long as economics is a discipline where one group of people studies the 
wants, opportunities, and knowledge of another group of people; this 
aspiration, like that of Don Quixote, will remain unfulfilled," Gunning 
pontificated. 
 
Pat Gunning 
 
 
 
 
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