Re: Econ: Krugman attacks Bionomics

Lee Daniel Crocker (lcrocker@mercury.colossus.net)
Wed, 29 Oct 1997 15:18:14 -0800 (PST)


> Economist Paul Krugman attacks Michael Rothschild's Bionomics in Slate
> (Rothschild spoke at Extro 2):
> The Power of Biobabble Pseudo-economics meets pseudo-evolution.
> <http://www.slate.com/Dismal/97-10-23/Dismal.asp>

Good article; thanks for the pointer. I don't think, though, that
he attacks the discipline itself so much as he attacks Rothschild's
sloppily-researched book on it, and some of its followers. He
does not, in fact, have anything at all to say about specific
tenets of Bionomics (if indeed there are any; that's his main point).

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