=================== HES POSTING ====================== 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 [log in to unmask] http://members.aol.com/gregransom/hayekpage.htm ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]