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Mansfield on Economists
Here is Harvard's Harvey Mansfield on economists (in relation to the Summers affair).
Summers is an economist, and there is almost no such thing as a suave economist. The great Joseph Schumpeter, a Harvard economist of long ago, claimed to be the world's greatest lover as well as the world's greatest economist (it is said), but he was a singular marvel. The reason why economists are blunt is that words of honey seem to them mere diversion from reason and self-interest, which are the only sure guides in life.
Posted by Alex Tabarrok on March 1, 2005 at 03:34 PM in Current Affairs | Permalink
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