Muddy Playing Field: Dialectics and Economics

This is a thought provoking article about the modern state of education and why so many Americans (and Europeans) just don't understand economics. It's the dialectic, stupid, that has gotten in the way. The article quoted below, "Socialist Professors and Economics," was written by Sam Vankin, who is the author of Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited and After the Rain - How the West Lost the East. Vankin was a columnist for Central Europe Review, Global Politician, PopMatters, eBookWeb, and Bellaonline, and as a United Press International (UPI) Senior Business Correspondent. He was the editor of mental health and Central East Europe categories in The Open Directory and Suite101.

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Can Socialist Professors of Economics Teach Capitalism? Is Transition from Communism Possible? This is why workers and managers inherited from the socialist-communist period can never function properly in a Capitalist ambience. Both were trained at civil disobedience through looting their own state and factories. Both grew accustomed to state handouts and bribes disguised as entitlements, were suspicious and envious at their own elites (especially their politicians and crony professors), victims to suppressed rage and open, helpless, degrading dependence. Such workers and managers - no matter how well intentioned and well qualified or skilled - are likely to sabotage the very efforts whose livelihood depends on. READ THE WHOLE ARTICLE...