Dan Abel > wrote in
:

> In article >,
> Michel Boucher > wrote:
>
>> Dan Abel > wrote in
>> news:dabel-9F61AB.11365907112008@c-61- 68-245-199.per.connect.net.au:
>>
>> > McCain wanted to give
>> > Enron a US$4 billion dollar tax credit, to "create jobs" and keep
>> > companies from moving overseas.
>>
>> Like that hasn't been tried and found to be a failure. Pretty
>> ****ing crazy if you ask me (and you did, trust me :-) ).
>
> A failure for whom?

Giving money to businesses in order to keep jobs...

>> Maybe it's time for a thorough exagmination round this particular
>> factification that economics studies anything other than human
>> relations.
>
> Hopefully you figured it out quicker than I did. I got a BA in
> economics before I figured out that it was flawed from the beginning.
> Actually, though, there are other fields that study human relations
> (sociology, politics and psychology), so economics just assumes away
> everything that is important, and draws conclusions based on leaving
> out the most important factors.

I have an MA in History and I consider economics to be a minor branch of
anthropology, down there with political science.

> Q: What do you get when you line up 1000 economists end to end?
>
> A: 1000 different opinions!

Q: How many liberal economists does it take to change a lightbulb?

A: None. They all go to the bar and let the invisible hand take care of
it.

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Q: How many liberal economists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

A: Two, but darned if I know how they got in there...

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Three econometricians went out hunting, and came across a large deer. The
first econometrician fired, but missed, by a meter to the left. The
second econometrician fired, but also missed, by a meter to the right.
The third econometrician didn't fire, but shouted in triumph, "We got it!
We got it!"

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“Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest
of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest
good of everyone.” - John Maynard Keynes