This goes beyond the economics field, and requires feedback and involvement from all citizens.
After all, if war is too important to be left to the generals, then surely EVERY process is too important to be left to the presumed process owners?
Chuck Spinney writes:
The attached pdf, from the Cal Tech archives, is Richard Feynman's commencement address to the graduating class of 1974. His title, framed with his characteristic wit, is "Cargo Cult Science: Some remarks of science, pseudoscience, and leaning how not to fool yourself."
Feynman's subject is nature of integrity in the practice of science and the search for truth (and, I would add, in life). His remarks are especially germane when the practice science involves the quest for money and the misshaping of public policy (a subject President Eisenhower also addressed explicitly in his farewell address almost 14 years earlier -- see endnote [1]).
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[1] See the six paragraphs beginning where Eisenhower said: "Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades." ...
Cargo Bilk Economics? Why do the 1% have all the cargo now? Just 'cuz they say they should, and that we should believe 'em, without question ... 'cuz 'economics is SO hard'? Gandhi had some succinct words about the idiocy of that arrangement. Just refuse to go along? Act like an owner, of democracy?
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