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Economy

mbperrin

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9. Gawrsh, that's a BIG compliment coming from Tansy_Gold!

Reply to Tansy_Gold (Reply #8)

Fri Dec 30, 2011, 05:03 PM

Dec 2011

Thanks. Fortunately for me, my economics professors from the early 70s were quite rigorous and insistent on source documents.

I've been teaching eco now for 3 decades, so plenty of practice.

Thanks a bunch for all you do, which is mighty work!

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companies were going bankrupt or had to move out of country. [View all] seabeyond Dec 2011 OP

I wish we could sue teachers for malpractice. Warpy Dec 2011 #1

this is the part i told her. but i do remember a time a decade ago, companies seemed to seabeyond Dec 2011 #2

In most cases, it was bullshit. In a few cases Warpy Dec 2011 #4

Another point to be made is that we were propagandized to believe shipping our jobs overseas.... Tansy_Gold Dec 2011 #7

Child labor is WHY people are hungry. mbperrin Dec 2011 #3

you say it so much better than I Tansy_Gold Dec 2011 #8

Gawrsh, that's a BIG compliment coming from Tansy_Gold! mbperrin Dec 2011 #9

Tansy Gold is woefully unschooled and operates by the seat of her pants and her gut instinct Tansy_Gold Dec 2011 #10

Any John Ruskin or E. F. Schumacher? mbperrin Dec 2011 #11

Ruskin yes, a lot of JS Mill Tansy_Gold Dec 2011 #12

Seabeyond, it doesn’t sound as though your niece will gain much knowledge in that course. ms.smiler Dec 2011 #5

It is outright scary that this is being taught in a college course. I have always wanted the economy jwirr Dec 2011 #6