re 6394: > I remember my brother (a real >capitalist entrepreneur) who, at some point, decided to took some Economics >courses at the University. After a couple of semesters, he told me he has >never seen something more "absurd and unuseful" in the world than >Microeconomics! > >A. isn't this inadequacy of economics why business schools had to be opened--at UC Berkeley (I think) undergrads tend only to go into economics if they do not win admission to the elite business major. But there's an asymmetry of course: the business class got business economics but the working class does not get the economics of the working class in part of course because labor value no more exists than Ptolemaic epicycles! RB
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