Occupy Econ 101
When a science is dying, disciples begin to refuse initiation.
This is what happened last Wednesday in the class of Harvard economics professor Gregory Mankiw, with these simple opening words: “Today, we are walking out of your class.”
The rejection of Mankiw’s class is only a single event in the class of one professor, and yet this refusal may prove to be an event with a much wider significance. Mankiw's econ 101 textbook, Principles of Economics, has made it into the minds of almost every economics student in the modern world and if the students of Mankiw can revolt, then it is possible that students everywhere can begin the task of rethinking the dysfunctional old neoclassical paradigm.
In response to the walk-out, Mankiw has only doubled down his orthodoxy, claiming that the 1% have suffered more than the 99% as a result of the recession. Now is the time for a global walk-out. Download a poster of the True Cost Economics Manifesto at kickitover.org and pin it up in the corridor of your department. Let's start an all out meme war against our neoclassical profs and begin the daunting task of ushering in a new bionomic, psychonomic, ecological economics paradigm.
Now is a good time to begin an escalation and turn the whole world into a grand economics department … to occupy it.
Send pics of what's happening at your campus to [email protected]
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Update: Check out the video of students walking out of Professor N. Gregory Mankiw's Economics 10 class:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKS1jZxWLPM
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Anonymous
First of all, a government that represents the people is a republican form of government.
Second, are you saying that the anarchists behind OWS are fighting for more government control of the markets and corporations? Because, if you are, it seems like you're arguing that anarchists' eventual goal is a fascist form of government.
I didn't know that anarchists wanted more governmental control. I thought they wanted general chaos and, well, anarchy. Or, is that a little too on the nose?
Anonymous
First of all, a government that represents the people is a republican form of government.
Second, are you saying that the anarchists behind OWS are fighting for more government control of the markets and corporations? Because, if you are, it seems like you're arguing that anarchists' eventual goal is a fascist form of government.
I didn't know that anarchists wanted more governmental control. I thought they wanted general chaos and, well, anarchy. Or, is that a little too on the nose?
Anonymous
My name is Greed.
It is not enough that you sacrificed your dreams, your hopes, your integrity, your conscious, your spirituality, your body, your health, your marriage, your friends, your family, your community, your state, your nation, your air, your water, your land, your food, your heritage, your language, your traditions, your sports, your architecture, your arts, your craft, your business, your civilization,
I still want more.
I want your children.
And their children. And their children. And all that sustains life and love and joy forever.
Sacrifice it all on my altar. I know no bounds. I never have Enough.
Delude, drug, destroy yourselves into serving me.
My name is Greed.* I never have Enough.
_____________________
*Official sponsor of the 1%
Anonymous
My name is Greed.
It is not enough that you sacrificed your dreams, your hopes, your integrity, your conscious, your spirituality, your body, your health, your marriage, your friends, your family, your community, your state, your nation, your air, your water, your land, your food, your heritage, your language, your traditions, your sports, your architecture, your arts, your craft, your business, your civilization,
I still want more.
I want your children.
And their children. And their children. And all that sustains life and love and joy forever.
Sacrifice it all on my altar. I know no bounds. I never have Enough.
Delude, drug, destroy yourselves into serving me.
My name is Greed.* I never have Enough.
_____________________
*Official sponsor of the 1%
Karl Karnadi
The students above are showing a weak childish non-scientific attitude. If you don't agree with Mankiw's view, debate it, use arguments against his arguments. If after that the debate turn out to be a very heated debate and it's not possible to continue staying in the class, then yes you can walk out.
But asking all the student to just walk out on every economic class with professors with a different view than your's, well that's just asking students to keep being stupid and childish. It's not a good thing.
Karl Karnadi
The students above are showing a weak childish non-scientific attitude. If you don't agree with Mankiw's view, debate it, use arguments against his arguments. If after that the debate turn out to be a very heated debate and it's not possible to continue staying in the class, then yes you can walk out.
But asking all the student to just walk out on every economic class with professors with a different view than your's, well that's just asking students to keep being stupid and childish. It's not a good thing.
ChicagoJohn
Yep.
By walking out of his class, they basically announced that they were not intellectually prepared to debate the professor.
Which is fine.
But they probably shouldn't be so proud of it, nor feel so intellectually superior while running away from a intellectual challenge.
ChicagoJohn
Yep.
By walking out of his class, they basically announced that they were not intellectually prepared to debate the professor.
Which is fine.
But they probably shouldn't be so proud of it, nor feel so intellectually superior while running away from a intellectual challenge.
Anonymous
RICH KIDS PROTESTING RICH PEOPLE IF THEY REALLY WANTED TO PROTEST THEY WOULD GO TO A STATE SCHOOL AND ANY FAMILY MONEY THEY HAVE WOULD GIVE IT AWAY WITHOUT A TAX DEDCTION
Anonymous
RICH KIDS PROTESTING RICH PEOPLE IF THEY REALLY WANTED TO PROTEST THEY WOULD GO TO A STATE SCHOOL AND ANY FAMILY MONEY THEY HAVE WOULD GIVE IT AWAY WITHOUT A TAX DEDCTION
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