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  3. From: kim_sh@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Sung Hyun Kim)
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  5. Subject: Re: What is economics? (repost)
  6. Date: 21 Jan 1993 13:43:52 -0500
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  15. Pick any academic department, say physics,mathematics,management science or
  16. industrial engineering, and of course economics, and psychology. And apply
  17. Mr.Wee's reasoning, and then we will realize that there is no social benefit
  18. we get from those departments and we shouldn't be attending or supporting
  19. such institutions.  Do you still believe that *engineering* depts are doing
  20. something practical? Mind you, look at what a typical professor of engineering
  21. does.. [I guess I don't know exactly, but that's the whole point.]
  22.  BTW, note that all the department listed above, I somehow got acquainted in
  23. the course of my studying so that I can say that I have the feeling about what
  24. they are about.
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  26.  Sung Hyun Kim    kim_sh@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu : Economics, Johns Hopkins U.
  27.