True intellectuals treat each other with respect. And try to learn from each other, not force their ideas on each other.
"Shows what you know of intellectuals. You've never heard of politics in academia and its nastiness and roughness? Are these people not 'intellectuals'? If not, then what?"
Now if you are prepared to enter a civil debate and not accuse me of "trolling" (whatever that is), or threaten to ban me
"How can he ban you from this thread? He's not moderator."
for my ideas, I would be happy to debate you. But I will not argue with you, or anyone else, nor will I stupe to name calling.
"DEfine the difference between 'argue' and 'debate'? And do you not know `that some of mankinds greatest intellectual accomplishments came from some of its nastiest fights? 'Genteel' and 'truth' don't even know each other."
And I will "waste some of my time" debating my ideas, although I am sure we will never agree on much of anything. I am well aware that liberal's and conservative's talk right past each other. That makes it even more important for people of both persuasions to speak to each other in a respectful manner. Would you not agree?
"Would you agree that Tojo or Hitler should be treated with respect? I despise them and their ideas. Do you not?"
You know nothing about me, yet you act as though I am some uneducated slob who just needs to be intellectually rescued by you and pointed in the right direction.
"Maybe he has inferred more than you can."
I have read as many of the great thinkers of the world as I could trying to learn from them. And I am an old man.
"So? Who hasn't? And much of it is rubbish.
Are Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, ... included among 'the great thinkers of the world'?
How about 'By their fruits, ye shall judge them.'? (No, I am not a Christian.)"
A little about me: I have been the state Director of three state agencies:
"A bureaucrat in other words."
Office of Alcholism and Drug Abuse,
"Did you reduce either? Proof?"
Emergency Medical Services
"Any better? Proof?"
and coordinating a state disaster.
"Was it worse before or after you got involved? What did you do? Did what you do provably have anything to do with the outcome? Can you prove that the final outcome was any better that it would have been had the state never gotten involved? Many things get better simply given time and the efforts of those affected."
I have been a teacher,
"RETCH!!!"
gone to graduate school
"RETCH!!!!"
and run for the state legislature.
"A politician and you ADMIT it? SHAME!"
I was also the principle author of both of the intial state plans for the office's mentioned above, and in implementing said state programs.
"Answer the questions, THEN we'll judge what THAT means."
I am on SI mostly as I make most of my money trading mining shares and am well known on said threads.
"So? Lots of fools are and were on SI. This site is crowded with FORMER millionaires. They forgot to duck before the crash."
I do not believe all of the ideas of anyone, but in most universities in the world Keynes and Galbraith are considered intellectual giants. Many people feel Keynes (who predicted the 1929 crash)
"HE DID? Prove it! He got CAUGHT in it and lost the fortune he had accumulated!
Interestingly, John Maynard Keynes also failed to predict 1929-32, and lost three-fourths of his net worth.
fee.org
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to be on an intellectual par with with Einstein.
"NUTS!"
I agree that economics is as much a social science as a hard science, but all the more reason that the most important philosophical/social thinkers be understood and considered, not dismissed out of hand.
"'Social science' is an oxymoron."
Max Weber was probably the most eduated man who ever lived
"Nuts. Prove it."
and was responsible for much of modern day social theory. To dismiss James Joyce and Sartre as unimportant is silly.
"Why? Other than your unsupported opinion."
And I do not agree with lots of what these guys or any of the philosopher's or pundents say, but I believe in an eclectic philosophy taking from the wisdom of all thinkers and cultures.
"A good way of collecting multiple errors?
That's 'pundits', BTW."
So I will await your response. Cheers.
"I await yours."
This article is about the American economist. For the Pennsylvania Congressman, see John Galbraith (Pennsylvania).
Western economists
20th century economists
(Institutional economics)
Name
John Kenneth Galbraith
Birth
October 15, 1908
Iona Station, Ontario, Canada
Death
April 29, 2006, age 97
Cambridge, Massachusetts
School/tradition
Institutional economics
Main interests
Economics, Political economy
Notable ideas
Keynesian economics, institutional economics
John Kenneth Galbraith (October 15, 1908–April 29, 2006) was an influential Canadian-American economist. He was a Keynesian and an institutionalist, a leading proponent of 20th-century American liberalism and progressivism. His books on economic topics were bestsellers in the 1950s and 1960s.
"So? Harry Potter made him look like a piker. Do you believe him more because he outsold Galbraith?"
Galbraith was a prolific author who produced four dozen books and over a thousand articles on various subjects.
"So what? You think quantity is outweighs quality?"
Among his most famous works was a popular trilogy on economics, American Capitalism (1952), The Affluent Society (1958), and The New Industrial State (1967). He taught at Harvard University for many years.
"Harvard has been home to many fools. So?"
Galbraith was active in politics
"Is that an indictment?"
serving in the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson; and among other roles served as U.S. ambassador to India under Kennedy.
"Yeah, it was."
He was one of a few two-time recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He received one from President Truman in 1946 and another from President Bill Clinton in 2000[1].
"THERE'S AN INDICTMENT! For what? What proof is there the claimed accomplishments actually occurred and he was actually responsible for them?"
He was also awarded the Order of Canada in 1997[2] and, in 2001, the Padma Vibhushan, India's second highest civilian award, for his contributions to strengthening ties between India and the United States.[3].
"For all your claimed wisdom, you haven't figured out yet that political awards are POLITICAL- -they depend on who you know, how well, prominence, how much you've impressed impressionable reporters looking for a splash in the day's paper, and how well liked you are by the giver? That they are given for reasons that have nothing to do with excellence or the supposed reasons for them?
Arafat got the Nobel Peace Prize. So did Jimmy Carter, the greatest failure as a President of the last century. The UN got one. A lot they've accomplished.
Henry Kissinger ('Dr. Strangelove') got one.
William Shockley and Francis Crick ('Blacks are genetically inferior') got one each.
General George Marshall, commander of US forces in WW@, got one. Does indirect responsibility for the deaths of millions help?
Frank Kellog, former Secretary of State, negotiated the Briand-Kellogg Pact to outlaw war in 1929. THAT really worked, didn't it?
Theodore Wilson, founder of the League of Nations, got one. THAT really worked well too, didn't it?
nobelprizes.com
Adolph Hitler and Josef Stalin were nominated for the Peace Prize.
Richard Nixon got the American Campaign Medal, the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, and the World War II Victory Medal. You like him?
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President Jerry Ford got the Medal of Freedom Award. Well?
medaloffreedom.com
President Herbert Hoover got an award from Belgium for his WW1 relief work.
query.nytimes.com
You like him?
For all your self-claimed wisdom, you fail to impress me except as a self-satisfied, pompous ***." |
