Tuesday, October 10, 2006

A Nobel We Can All Misunderstand

The Wall Street Journal has a disquisition on capitalism v. socialism by 2006 Nobel winner Edmund Phelps. He may be a remarkably good economist, but he's also a remarkably poor writer. His sentences obscure their meaning rather than reveal it, and he even leaves the occasional ambiguous antecedent.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I watched him on some news program; he's a pretty bad speaker too...