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Your next question, Sam. "How do you know that Jacob Viner was an
economist?"
By the way, as I recall, there is some dispute about whether Viner said
this. I wrote something about this on this list a couple of months ago,
as I recall. Do a search on "what economists do."
On 4/12/2011 11:45 AM, Samuel Bostaph wrote:
> Who is an "economist?"
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> Samuel Bostaph, Ph.D.
> Champaign, Illinois
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> "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick
> themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened."--Winston Churchill
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> --- On *Mon, 4/11/11, Thomas Humphrey /<[log in to unmask]>/* wrote:
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> From: Thomas Humphrey <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: [SHOE] DeLong on Econ Ed
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Monday, April 11, 2011, 1:12 PM
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> Students should be taught economics.
> Economics is defined as what economists do (including modeling).
> Therefore students should be taught modeling, among other things.
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--
Pat Gunning
Professor of Economics
Melbourne, Florida
http://www.nomadpress.com/gunning/welcome.htm
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