Thursday, August 21, 2008

Gabriel, it's not too late to re-consider that PhD in Economics!!

Turns out, we are pure evil:

"Here we are, in full planetary emergency, a time when we need new young graduates with a realistic understanding of what is wrong with the world, with skills that will help humanity chart a new course. And what do economics departments aspire to churn out? Individuals trained to not recognize symptoms of impending collapse, trained to ignore appalling inequality, trained to celebrate profligate waste, trained to be closed-minded and unwilling to engage with different disciplines."

hat tip to Lebron James



1 comment:

Tom said...

Poor, sad Bill Rees! His pet peeves are not supported by objective analysis? Man, it really sux when that happens.

I took one of those "footprint" tests on-line. I'm not ashamed of my moderately low score, but only because most of the "approved" practices that helped that, were due to my effort to...
...
(wait for it...)
...
...
SAVE MONEY!