HES: RE: QUERY--Economics vs. Political Economy

Alan G Isaac aisaac at american.edu
Fri Jun 20 09:40:59 EDT 2008


HH DAVE wrote:
> Your words,... 
>> "We choose because we have free will and human actions 
>> are non-deterministic"

That was a quote from Sam Bostaph, not my words.


>> "A claim that humans make economic choices because they have free will."

Those words are mine (without the period), but if you read 
the post you will see I was referring to Sam's claim and was 
making no such claim.  Indeed, my point was that this
metaphysical discussion does not profit science.

Cheers,
Alan Isaac






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