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Subject: it's so easy to get sucked into "bottom line" arguments

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Ian (Australia)

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Date Posted: 14:38:18 11/24/04 Wed
In reply to: Ed Harris (Venezia) 's message, "Crikey, someone who agrees with me!" on 14:23:22 11/24/04 Wed

But I don't think we are really all capable of selling our grandmothers for a tax cut.

We argue about economics because both sides feel the other will discredit them for being "impractical" if we don't. With that, we end up forgeting that these were not the reasons we started out with.

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Ed Harris (Venezia)
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Date Posted: 14:52:54 11/24/04 Wed

And it's futile anyway, because economics is more like politics than a science: two people can look at the same figures and come to different conclusions, just as two people can look at the same social problem and put forward different solutions. For once I think that Aristotle was dead wrong: politics and economics are not incompatible - they are broadly the same thing. Adam Smith knew.

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