Correspondence
Correspondence Bring on the biologists Newton, Mass. To the Editors: David Toolan's recent article ["Psychology's Theological Quantum Jump," Oct 10] was for me one of the most stimulating and...
...To the Editors: Can this be trusty Colin Westerbeck, parroting anti-Catholic, hispanophobe canards...
...Smith and Friedman...
...It would be interesting to hear from the biologists after such an interesting dip into the world of the new physicists...
...The fact remains that many businessmen have good things to say about Messrs...
...In the end, he will have eyes and see not...
...After that, good hunting...
...Continued on page 670) Commonweal: 642 (Continued from page As I read Dr...
...Brincan y bailan los peces en el Rio, brincan y bailan al ver a Dios nacido...
...Thatcher or General Pinochet...
...JULIAN J. IRIAS Worker participation Silver Spring, Md...
...Friedman (more than many businessmen, certainly less than Professor Sowell) he would have more compassion for the men on Chrysler assembly lines than for the businessmen involved...
...he must have heroic sadism: ". . .all those traits which Catholic Spain bred in its sons expressly for the purpose of repression—traits which were never supposed to be turned loose . . ." It's not weakness of intellect, birdie (I sighed...
...Chile, where "Chicago boys" are running the economy...
...To the Editors: Twice recently I have read Thomas Sowell reacting to criticism of conservative economics...
...Take some time off, Mr...
...michael o'neill Commonweal: 670...
...In Europe management has learned to live profitably with labor organizations whose leaders are dedicated, by and large, to nationalization and democratic socialism...
...It's a cultural kink in his little inside...
...At base, as Michael Harrington pointed out on an episode of the ' 'Free to Choose" television series, it is an ideology masquerading as a science, using culturally celebrated words like "free enterprise" and "free market" as a smokescreen for the prevailing economic system of corporate capitalism (just as Soviet socialism does for state capitalism...
...What could be more Spanish, or more Catholic...
...12] is no doubt correct in saying that neither Adam Smith nor Milton Friedman have many good things to say about businessmen...
...That is high praise indeed, for you seem to manage a consistently high level of performance along both those dimensions...
...No doubt they have not read these authors with care...
...Given the distance between abstract models and the concrete practice of economics, these authors should not be blamed for what others think they have said...
...It's all those movies, too, all that Bunuel, poor fellow, to confirm his prejudices...
...It elevates a secondary moral principle— freedom to buy and sell...
...After reading the article I wondered if Toolan and his readers are familiar with the work of Gregory Bateson, especially with his last book Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity, published in 1979...
...It is all so very Spanish...
...As for Professor Sowell never hearing businessmen praised at the University of Chicago—this has not interrupted the flow of funds from businessmen to the "Chicago boys," here and abroad...
...Alas, yes...
...Ah, well...
...ears, and hear not...
...If this could be blamed on the theorist, there would be even more substance to the assertion that Dr...
...Friedman has no good things to say about businessmen...
...The same tradition maintains the primacy of political action and decision-making, to supervise the workings of any economic system so that the prior human rights and needs of individuals and societies can be protected and fostered...
...Demented fury is not enough...
...Leo XIII or Paul VI are enough to warn us off your kind of economics...
...To the Editors: David Toolan's recent article ["Psychology's Theological Quantum Jump," Oct 10] was for me one of the most stimulating and important you have published in recent months...
...Finally, the tradition of Catholic social teaching, based on a long acquaintance with the "nature of man," and the "limitations of his knowledge and morality," long ago pointed to an essential defense of the nature and freedom of man in economic affairs which conservative economics denies and would like to eliminate—labor unions...
...More to the point, conservative economics is mechanistic and amoral...
...Autumn will soon lead to Advent and Christmas...
...GORDON H. COLE Senior Staff Associate George Meany Center for Labor Studies Milton & devil's party Sydney, Cape Breton, Canada To the Editors: Professor Sowell ['' Mythstatements?'' Correspondence, Sept...
...It's the good old Anglo linguistic imperialism, which once found home-grown words enough to flatter masculine pretensions ("heman," "all boy"), but now kidnaps "macho" to ridicule them...
...Twice he fouls Yas Picasso review [October 10] with casual defamations...
...I am not sure that the same could be said of Mrs...
...Conservative economics seeks to remove such supervision and protection...
...MARY JANE FERRIER Psychologist Spain in the neck San Francisco, Calif...
...To the Editors: One could wish that the management climate in the U.S.A...
...12] exemplifies the reasons why this kind of economics is unacceptable on philosophical and moral grounds...
...It might also be unfair to point out that in Great Britain and in Chile, where governments claim to put Dr...
...Although Bateson himself says, "I have put the descriptions of sticks and stones and billiard balls and galaxies in one box, the pleroma, and have left them alone," it seems to me after a careful reading of him that he arrives, through the study of "living things: crabs, people, problems of beauty, and problems of difference," at a view very similar to that of the physicists Toolan refers to in his article...
...No, Professor Sowell, we don't need Galbraith or Veblen...
...Brincan y bailan los peces en el agua, brincan y bailan al ver nacido el alba...
...We can only hope that someday American management will discover that organized labor is one of the system's greatest assets and use it accordingly...
...that tendency to combine idealization with ravishment, with rage...
...The fish jump and dance in the river, The fish jump and dance to see God is born...
...The latest [Commonweal, Sept...
...Westerbeck...
...In the United States a growing group of corporate managers is challenging the very existence of the American labor movement whose leaders, by and large, are dedicated to the preservation of private enterprise and opposed to nationalization and socialism...
...Put aside for a while what you "know" about the somber Spanish temper, and listen to the villancicos...
...and, in the name of value—free (and ultimately value-less) social science, gives free rein to those who profit from the secondary freedom at the expense of the principal freedoms (e.g...
...It's one more insensible surrender to the hostile tradition which for centuries has viewed Spain only through blood-dimmed eyes...
...obfuscates the distinction between this particular and very limited definition of freedom, and the much more important freedoms— from hunger, oppression, injustice, for human development, common use of the goods of creation, justice and peace...
...Jordan bishop Chicago boys, no Daytona Beach, Fla...
...Sept...
...The fish jump and dance in the water, The fish jump and dance to see the sunrise...
...Friedman's theories into practice, the failure rate for small businesses has increased dramatically...
...permitted more experimentation with the kinds of worker participation in corporate decision-making that exist in Europe, as Robert Senser reported so thoughtfully in "Industrial Democracy, Ltd...
Vol. 107 • November 1980 • No. 21
