Economics, Shmeconomics (was RE: IP Protection ...)

[Clay Shirky]

> I must confess I'm a bit surprised at what you 
> describe was happening in the economics community. 
> So I guess it stands to reason that some economists 
> were a bit surprised by what was going on in the 
> Soviet Union. That ivory curtain can be quite opaque. ;-)

Actually, you were right and I was wrong, as I realized (oh how often
does this happen) after I hit send. By the 80's, as I listed in my
last post, there were still economists who were arguing for central
planning, but they were arguing for the *political* superiority of
central economic planning.

After I posted that, I realized that I can't in fact point to any
economist working after the 70s who was arguing that central planning
was a more efficient economic system who was not already committed to
the political ideals necessary to make it happen.

-clay