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To: elmatador who wrote (84987)12/23/2011 2:11:13 PM
From: Ilaine3 Recommendations  Read Replies (3) of 218308
 
English people tend to mix capitalism with morals because the creators of political economy were philosophers.

That era of economics was opposed to slavery, among other liberal ideas of the times. Thomas Carlyle, who was in favor of slavery as a means of regulating labor, came up with the term "the dismal science" because economists of that era believed that all men were equal.
econlib.org

Modern economists are just mathematicians.

On the contrary, many modern economists are philosophers, and a lot of fun to read. George Mason Univerisity Department of Economics (older son has undegraduate GMU economics degree) has a wonderful program, but there are wonderful, fun economics programs all over the country, e.g., University of Chicago.
freakonomics.com
gmu.edu
marginalrevolution.com
mercatus.org
ted.com
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