[ExI] BOOK: Joel Mokyr "The Enlightened Economy"

Damien Broderick thespike at satx.rr.com
Fri Sep 10 20:56:16 UTC 2010


On 9/10/2010 2:23 PM, BillK wrote:

<http://www.city-journal.org/2010/20_3_enlightenment-ideas.html>

<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/10/opinion/10brooks.html>

> And suggests that the current US economic problems are in part due to
> the best brains moving to non-productive areas of the economy rather
> than industry.

I'm inclined to mutter "Duh!" but might replace (or augment) 
"non-productive" with "anti-productive."

Damien Broderick



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