20 março, 2010

Palavras lidas #122

On Bob Solow:

(...) In his own interview in the same volume, Solow explained his unwillingness to engage with the new classical economists: “Suppose someone sits down where you are sitting right now and announces to me that he is Napoleon Bonaparte. The last thing I want to do with him is to get involved in a technical discussion of cavalry tactics at the Battle of Austerlitz. If I do that, I'm getting tacitly drawn into the game that he is Napoleon Bonaparte.” (...)

pp. 12-3, complete text here

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