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ABSTRACT: In my Dewey-L post “Re: History of regulation of finance” [Hake (2011c)], I responded to Celinda Scott’s (2011a) comments regarding Nicholas Wapshott's (2011)
In response, philosopher H.G. Callaway (2011d) criticized my post for diverting the discussion away from the Dodd-Frank act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodd_Frank_Act which he thinks should be the centerpiece of serious discussion on the Callaway-initiated thread “Re: History of regulation of finance.”
Callaway’s complaint could probably have been avoided if I had had the good sense to simply title my post “Keynes & Hayek (was ‘Re: History of regulation of finance’).” Then more Dewey-L discussion might have turned towards consideration of the clash of Keynes and Hayek that, according to Wapshott, “defined modern economics.”
Of course, modern economics has had a crucial impact on social conditions and education - see e.g., Hake (2011a,b) - matters of concern to Dewey and therefore properly within the province of Dewey-L, perhaps even more so than the Dodd-Frank act.
On a related matter, I completely disagree with Callaway’s (2011d) assertion that “Re: Castles in the Sky #2” [Hake (2009)] at http://bit.ly/rBPxls was “loaded with doubtful comments and links” and “made little or no sense.” That post concerned the sky-castle building of traditional economists such as Alan Greenspan and Lawrence Summers, who seem to regard the economic system as divorced from the ecosystem, a standpoint roundly criticized by ecological economists such as Herman Daly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Daly.
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Richard Hake, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Indiana University
Honorary Member, Curmudgeon Lodge of Deventer, The Netherlands
President, PEdants for Definitive Academic References
which Recognize the Invention of the Internet (PEDARRII)
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“Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving. Not that it always effects this result; but that conflict is a sine qua non of reflection and ingenuity.”
John Dewey, Morals Are Human, Dewey: Middle Works, Vol.14, p. 207
REFERENCES [All URL's shortened by http://bit.ly/ and accessed on 09 Nov 2011.]
Hake, R.R. 2011. “Keynes & Hayek (was ‘Re: History of regulation of finance’), ” online on the OPEN! Dewey-L archives at http://bit.ly/vkKmaw. Post of 9 Nov 2011 10:23:43-0800 to Dewey-L. The abstract and link to the complete post are being transmitted to several discussion lists.
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