Friday, December 31, 2010

Zombie Economists to Consider Ethics Code

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  1. Here is the link to Zombie Economics. John Quiggin explains how these (really) dead ideas still walk among us--and why we must find a way to kill them once and for all if we are to progress and prosper again.

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  2. Thanks, Doc! "Would it be ethical to kill a zombie economist?" That's what I want to know.

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  3. IMO, not unethical to kill'm but he would prove to be inedible.

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  4. If it's inedible, why bother?

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  5. Quiggin says it's either them or us. Killing in self-defense is justifiable in normal circumstances. And we, I should not have to remind you, are not living in normal circumstances.

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  6. "Yes, your Honor, what we have here is a clear-cut case of justifiable econocide."

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