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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (19193)	5/20/2002 8:29:00 AM
From: Moominoid	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

I'm aghast at this notion. Welfare? Holy sh*t! I thought ethics was where we said Ken Lay is a criminal. And so is Jeff Skilling and Andy Fastow. I had no idea that in the academy we have become so unhinged from a moral compass that ethics has been reduced to a mere supplementary charity concept. I think you should find out what welfare economics is about before criticizing it. It is about the welfare of society, public choice (how society should choose what to do) etc. It can be taught poorly or well... still mainstream welfare econ is fairly limited in scope and the environmental econ. class will go beyond that in considering environmental ethics. Right. The ethical distribution of air pollution and asthma. I'd love to hear you rationalize privatizing all wealth and socializing all the health risks associated with the creation of the wealth. That'd be rich. Or how about You do seem to have a knack of thinking the worst of everyone :) Maybe you can take a look around the website of this society I belong to: ecologicaleconomics.org I am the treasurer of the Australia New Zealand chapter: cres.anu.edu.au and helped organize a couple of the international conferences - in Boston in 1996 and here in Canberra in 2000. At RPI they have the biggest grad program in ecological economics anywhere: rpi.edu This page might just appeal to you: rpi.edu Yeah right - it's an international conspiracy headquartered in the den of inquity in Washington DC.... David