[P2P-F] Students Walk-Out...

Tue Nov 8 12:03:21 CET 2011

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 4:24 AM, robert searle <dharao4 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> The following will be of interest....
>
> http://www.capitalinstitute.org/content/responding-occupy-wall-street

I like the idea of coordinating student walkouts with OWS, but find
the students' criticisms of Mankiw's class somewhat problematic.  They
probably need to understand the basic ideas of Smith, market-clearing
prices, etc., before they study Keynes' modifications -- just as they
need to be able to understand Newton before they tackle Einstein.  I
certainly can see the argument for a basic course on the history of
economic thought, or a brief survey of heterodox economics in a study
unit in Econ 101.  But you should be able to do things like avoid
subject-verb disagreement and dangling modifiers before you try to
write like James Joyce.

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