Life Among the Econ
I have found a hilarious paper from 1973 called “Life Among the Econ”, which purports to be an anthropological study of the ‘Econ’ tribe whose most prestigious caste, the Math-Econs, “obey the ancient Pythagorean principle that ‘philosophy must be pursued in such a way that its inner secrets are reserved for learned men, trained in Math.’ ”
Axel Leijonhufvud: Life Among the Econ. Western Economic Journal 11, 327–337, September 1973. (Sorry about the skew PDF, the result of an annoying photocopier at the Royal Library. I have an OCR'ed cropped version that's better for screen reading.)
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Fell on this while researching numbers (which don't really exist) for my econometric "modl" to present to the "elders" at my "village" so I can ascend into adulthood. A very welcome, amusing, relaxing break. I must beg to differ with the author in that econ society is flourishing in my particular village.
Posted by: Jessie | March 27, 2003 03:48 AM
I had been looking for that article for a while. but the files in the links do not work. is there any one to send me that file or let me know how to get it?
Posted by: mehmet | July 4, 2003 09:01 PM