While I respect your personal opinion, "harsh" seems like a rather relative dismissal. I've done my best to do my homework. Those who refuse that basic commitment and yet continue to use persuasive rhetoric and either actively misrepresent facts or rely on persuasion rather than analysis which can be addressed as part of an open scientific discourse, I really don't have much patience for. I have involved with cooperatives, primarily food based, for a long time. One of the dark side aspects of cooperative particularly when they are less than mature as community, is that they tend to have an open door to fraud of multiple types. This perhaps this means that I was never fully socialized, maybe. I believe strongly in acknowledging both the dark and light, and the difference between appearances and substance, as aspects of most human endeavors. In struggling to promote economic literacy, and it has been a struggle, I have to acknowledge the commitment or lack of it to an open discourse, transparency, accountability, and all that. The process of what I call inverted induction begins with certain conclusions, and then sets out to find ways of making that "conclusion" seem plausible. In large part pop-economics is an abandoned zone, imo, because it promotes confusion, as honest and well intentioned as its boosters may or may not be. As to the intentions of the writers in this genera, I will look at the evidence provided and their conclusions. To the extent that a peer review has been evaded or misrepresented I am likely to challenge the content. I suppose that is one definition of harsh, I prefer higher standards than most perhaps. On the side I have been exchanging with Stephanie Kelton and she shared with me a narrative essentially how MMT is becoming "mainstream" in a sense. I 've asked her if I can share it by way of demonstrating the non-cultish nature of MMT/FF. I expect to receive her approval shortly. As to posting my reviews, aah shucks, now you are going to make me self conscious (maybe). Tadit On Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:47:25 -0400, Michel Bauwens <[email protected]> wrote:
Harsh but fascinating judgments Tadit, in your list of reviews,
I have integrated some of your material in our wiki, see:
I'm also thinking of doing a series with your book reviews, what do you think?
Michel
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