roachboy

aei, heritage, cato, brookings, hoover....

you're an economist? well, live and learn, eh?

for what it is worth (writing as i go through a mix of music for the road, on which i shall be soon) i am not an americanist.
in my professional functions, i am fairly explicit about my politics--only part of which surface in these forums (this is sometimes like one of those rock em sock em robot games, you know? its hard to be terribly complex when you are everyone else are like plastic guys whacking each other...no-one wants their head to suddenly shoot skyward--got to stay focussed on the moving hand before your face)--and their conceptual underpinnings. in general i work out from the conceptual frameworks and try to pose questions about how history is staged/narrated and leave them open enough for students to think for themselves. i try to provide a range of materials as well,

maybe sometime we could have a conversation about what, from my viewpoint, are the boundaries that shape classical economics ideologically, about the politics of stats and their organization (like a switch in category makes the working class go away), about the impossibility of making "objective" statements, about the problems of pretending otherwise.

for the moment, all is shaped by jamming this post in between the flurry of last minute activities...i'll be for the most part out of here until the new year, so i hope all enjoy a lovely holidaze.....

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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear

it make you sick.

-kamau brathwaite