On Aug 6, 2013, at 9:18 PM, CHUA Soo Meng Jude (PLS) <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I wondered if there is something worth looking at in F A Hayek here, in his notion of the gentleman scholar, or man of indepednent means, with ownership of property and hence indepedence, and not under coercive duress: here there is room for originality and ideas that dare to contradict paymasters, and convention.
One doesn't need to be a full-on economic determinist to get a bad sunburn through the holes in that particular Hayek assumption (which is not to say that universities don't manage to impose their own assumed interests on scholarship.)
Anyone who hasn't seen them might enjoy the Hayek vs. Keynes smackdown videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nERTFo-Sk
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTQnarzmTOc
They've become popular enough that they have ads--a measurement of strong market forces in YouTubeWorld.
Gunnar
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