domingo, 9 de agosto de 2009

La definición de sexo, drogas y economía

En agradecimiento al Ph.d Ignatus Reilly por su aporte, y dado una pregunta que recibí el sábado por la noche acerca de su disfrutaba o no lo que estudiaba. La definición del porque es posible estudiar economía sin ser un amante empedernido de los números.

“The study of economics does not seem to require any specialised gifts of an unusually high order. Is it not, intellectually regarded, a very easy subject compared with the higher branches of philosophy and pure science? Yet good, or even competent, economists are the rarest of birds. An easy subject at very few excel! The paradox finds its explanation perhaps, in that the master-economist must posses a rare combination of gifts. He must be mathematician, historian statesman, philosopher- in some degree. He must understand symbols and speak in words. He must contemplate the particular in terms of the general, and touch abstract and concrete in the same flight of thought. He must study the present in the light of the past purposes of the future. No part of man’s nature or his institutions must lie entirely outside his regard. He must be purposeful and disinterested in a simultaneous mood; as aloof and incorruptible as an artist, yet sometimes as near the earth as a politician.”

Una vez más sepan disculpar por el post en inglés. Si sigo así en cualquier momento estaré diciendo que el salario minimo es una mierda porque genera ineficiencia.

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