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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (2736)	11/5/2007 11:57:56 AM
From: TimF	Respond to of 42652

The article was written by Jeffrey Sachs. Which doesn't mean there can't be problems with the article. If credentials, positions or awards are all that matter Hayek won the Nobel price for economics. You can find highly credentialed, and/or highly respected individuals with all sorts of different opinions. The idea that we must defer to someone else's opinion because they happen to have such credentials is unreasonable. Edit - This might be an interesting debate "Tyler Cowen will be one of the protagonists at the Economist debate in New York on November 10th. The proposition is "America is failing at the pursuit of happiness." For the affirmative will be Jeff Sachs and Betsey Stevenson. For the negative will be Will Wilkinson and Tyler." econlog.econlib.org