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Thursday, August 26, 2004
US sociologists are finally challenging the intellectual stranglehold of economists
Invisible Hands & Markets: Regime-shaking George Soros goes at Washington
One of the first jobs he found when he arrived in London from Budapest in 1947, practically penniless and speaking little English, was as a traveling salesman. The young George Soros would try to sell little knickknacks to tobacconists - unsuccessfully, as he now recalls. Often, he couldn't even find parking. His girlfriend left him because he seemed to have no future. He missed his parents. It rained incessantly.
• Hard-pressed to think of a nongovernmental figure in the US today - except maybe Oprah [When we speak of "mental" versus "manual" labor, are we overlooking anything? ]
• · Two economists look at America through very different glasses
• · · Cooking Books Accountants show they are versed in Panther speak
• · · · The Meedya Report: The best value-for-time occupations, which pay good salaries and enable workers to clock off after between 35 and 40 hours, are librarian ($997) ...
• · · · · Cop to Reverend: Close laptop outside library Make up your own joke about working on Sunday
• · · · · · Christopher Orlet Why women will not marry down