Monday, September 25, 2006

In-what-eracy?

There are major concerns about illiteracy and even innumeracy.
The Economist's View folk cite a very old but very sensible essay by Paul Krugman on the prevalence, and acceptability, of ignorance about basic economic issues. It is well worth a visit.
Ignorance of the implications of comparative advantage in exchange should really not be socially acceptable.

2 Comments:

At 9:39 PM, Blogger Alan Adamson said...

Hmmm. Krugman decidedly is not on my side of the political spectrum, but he is no foolhhh

 
At 9:26 AM, Blogger rondi adamson said...

He's not on my side of the political spectrum, either, but he sure wrote a great column about why sweat shops are a good thing. I think it was published in Slate, back in 1997.

 

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