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May 18, 2006
The Dismal Science's Practitioners Analyzed & Deconstructed
Economists who are members of the American Economic Association were surveyed recently. The views of these folks may surprise you. The majority supported the whole array of state interventions in the economy. To wit: FDA regulations, monetary and fiscal "fine tuning", redistribution of wealth, public schools, foreign aid, prohibition of drugs, the adult sex-trade, gambling, and foreign military adventures overseas to impose "democracy and the rule of law".
So I would gather that most AEA member economists are full-blown statist social engineers and collectivist nanny-staters. And so ah.. Fook 'em eh? People can, should, and do live their lives very nicely without the advice, policy recommendations, and anti-liberty social theories of the econo-geek class foisted on the rest of us like it was religious scripture or empirically derived scientific fact.
Read about it further here.
Posted by Ali Massoud at May 18, 2006 11:14 AM
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