[Calumny]

<strong>Written By:</strong> Calumny
<strong>Date:</strong> 2005-06-30 10:24:00
<a href="/article/212450778-what-makes-economists-different">Article Link</a>

Rest of story <a href="http://www.nzz.ch/2005/06/23/eng/article5878622.html">here</a>

[gaulois]

Great story from Calumny. I wish to answer this. I will expect that the only economists that are surviving and are published are well funded by the system in place. Milton Friedman&Co. come to mind. I often call this operating "la Tutelle". People living in minorities can smell that miles away In BC, i.e. couple thousand kms...

If you want to be a starving economist, speak up against liberalization and deregulation of markets. So the economists are really not different from the media and all the stakeholders that benefit from the system in place. Perhaps in Switzerland the "system" in place cannot operate these tutelles as the People are staying on top of things, as it should be.

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"We are all in this together somehow, some more than others somehow"

[gaulois]

I must add that there is some fairness in this world when the majority starts to experience for itself what it is really like when everyone falls under La Tutelle: media, spokespeople, economists, etc... First Nations first went to bat, Second Nations came next and the Third Nations are now in the batting box. Wish you well.

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"We are all in this together somehow, some more than others somehow"

[Patm]

Economists are taught a specific way of looking at things. The methodology is flawed. "market" driven is not a reality in today's world. Private monopolies and trusts along with a completely corrupt banking and political system ensure that only the BIG survive 99.99% of the time. If you ain't elite already, you can't have any.

The only "economists" that aren't flipping burgers are those that have bought into the whole deal. Those that speak the truth, or even just a small part of it, are ostriciesed. Just ask Joe Stiglitz about that, his role as vice president and chief economist at the World Bank ended when he started speaking out against the injustices being perpetrated by "Third rate graduates of first rate schools" in the third world in the name of trade "liberalization".