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Re: Mark Blaug and belief in models
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Nicola,
	Dialogue is seldom "exactly"; that's what makes it dialogue.  It's
two or more minds playing with overlapping ideas.
	The word "firm" as used in much economics is a disembodied spirit
that invites Romney's particular form of abstraction, among others.

Yours, 
Mason
	

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From: Societies for the History of Economics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
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Subject: Re: [SHOE] Mark Blaug and belief in models

Well, not exactly Mason. 
What I was asking for was a better slogan than my own one, "Samuelsonian
disease", to express (some) economists' overconfidence in their math models.

Nicola

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