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Adam Smith on Banking | 32 comments (32 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

You're not allowed to actually read Adam Smith. You have to sit in class and hear the bullshit story of Adam Smith like the rest of us. Only then have you earned the right to read his work and see the bullshit story for what it is!

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 07:29:00 AM EST
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You forgot the bit where they take in the room at the back of the Economics faculty building and blindfold you and play strange sounds at you.

by Metatone (metatone [a|t] gmail (dot) com) on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 08:41:30 AM EST
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I didn't want to scare him off.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 09:46:33 AM EST
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You think I'm going to enrol in an Economics degree at this stage?

A vivid image of what should exist acts as a surrogate for reality. Pursuit of the image then prevents pursuit of the reality -- John K. Galbraith

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Oct 10th, 2008 at 10:22:16 AM EST
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Oops, did I skip a step? We read extended sections in History of Economic Thought, and most of us read the whole thing anyway ... and sections from TMS as well.

When is the earlier part where someone stands in front of class and explains what Smith would have meant to have said if Smith had had a strong wish to be published in today's AER? Is that in an undergrad econ course?

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.

by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Sun Oct 12th, 2008 at 10:21:18 AM EST
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Adam Smith on Banking | 32 comments (32 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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