<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 7:12 PM, Dan TheBookMan </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:danust2012@gmail.com" target="_blank">danust2012@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​> ​</div>It seems to me that Chris meant that economics tends to NOT support 'wishful thinking.'<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​I know but that's NOT what I'm saying,  I'm saying that economic thinking is usually  mixed up with political thinking and a individual's moral ideas. For example: child labor is a bad thing therefore it could not have increased GNP in the 19th century, </div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">but it's not necessarily so, </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">one thing has nothing to do with the other.</span></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">​ John K Clark​</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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