tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4746130952759214320.post4971798912606801738..comments2023-09-28T11:33:06.863-04:00Comments on Big Bang Economics: This Jackass's ThoughtsJames Banghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13827871784144223628noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4746130952759214320.post-34847431782041851852007-08-17T08:26:00.000-04:002007-08-17T08:26:00.000-04:00Deep-rooted indeed. Mr. Dobbs gives us another exa...Deep-rooted indeed. Mr. Dobbs gives us another example of how belief and convinction trumps science and logic. <BR/>I think that these beliefs manifest in a couple of ways-there is a basic mistrust or prejudice of things and people "alien," and I think your blog does a better job than mine on that. <BR/>More to my point, I think that Mr. Dobbs exemplifies the popular but misguided notion that Economic Theory exists in a vacuum-he and others seem to think that that Economic Theory is a normative position on how the world should be rather than how it is. People don't really take economic theory as something that comes, first and foremost, from a careful empirical observation of the world with the aim of explaining fact.James Banghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13827871784144223628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4746130952759214320.post-59268896695767560502007-08-16T23:23:00.000-04:002007-08-16T23:23:00.000-04:00I particularly liked that bit about cutting off an...I particularly liked that bit about cutting off an arm to get rid of a paper cut! <BR/><BR/>I wonder if the antipathy to trade and immigration is based on something more deep rooted than misunderstanding what they mean (though as gentle walk through the groves of academe -- after missing the econ "trees" -- would be enough to convince one otherwise)Economicushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14529749179334953701noreply@blogger.com