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Pat Gunning <[log in to unmask]>
Sat, 26 Feb 2011 11:34:36 -0500
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Fascinating idea, John. But how would you decide whether an economist 
gets matters in his "discipline so stupidly, disastrously wrong?" I can 
see making this judgment for chemistry, biology, physics, etc. But 
economics? What would you suggest?

On 2/25/2011 11:28 AM, Womack, John wrote:
> I think the best revenge may be to join or create a department or program of the history of sciences, to work alongside historians of chemistry, biology, physics, etc., who now try to understand historically why very smart "scientists" in the past so often got matters in their disciplines so stupidly, disastrously wrong.
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Pat Gunning
Professor of Economics
Melbourne, Florida
http://www.nomadpress.com/gunning/welcome.htm

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