Hi Chris,

Don't sell yourself short :) I enjoyed what i could understand of your joint PDF paper on Lindblom:

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10361146.2014.954985?casa_token=UZ6f--feYiYAAAAA:NzLvNSHodNU2pxkrzWkl-kYx7Xx567AerBlQ-lRJIGEqe6WUeBpW9wLYh5WZKJHkybQ0pTl-wKrupYs

I've always been partial to Lindblom, especially his demolition of Soviet economic planning in 'Politics and Markets'. So your article was a fitting memorial to him. Thank you.

Joe

Shadyminister,

You forgot to list my worthless engineering degree that isn't worth the paper it is printed on.

I don't think I'll have an opportunity to do the research degree I had hoped to do. The WuFlu pandemic has left the country broke so I doubt I'll get in because there will now be less govt money to go around.

Looks like I'll just have to spend the rest of my life annoying you.

But thanks for the thought anyway.

Joe, I did a lot of research on that article in terms of events related to how tax events played out, but another academic setup theory with Lindblom.

Great to know that you read it.

Swamp donkey,

Any education shines a light into a part of how the universe and humanity function and can be a tool to improve one's life and that of those around you, but in the end, it is not the tools that define you but how you use them. That your engineering (BEng only) was not worth the paper it was printed on is more a reflection on you than it.

That you feel the need to redefine the word "education" and wave these pieces of paper around as if they give you status is just sad.

Finally, the truly educated will explore beyond the strictures of any syllabus and expand their education. I have viewed many of the great art collections in Europe, from Michelangelo to Picasso, Van Gogh to Miro and many in between. I have studied particle physics, wave theory and general relativity, the great wars from the Punic to Korea, generals from Alexander to Rommel, history from the Tudors to Mao. That you have limited yourself to a tiny patch of real estate in the swamp and declare it to be the limit of the universe is a joke that you can't grasp.

shadyminister,

I haven't seen any evidence of you having done anything outside of your vocational studies in engineering, commerce and business admin.

So I doubt very much that you have any worthwhile knowledge of things outside of those areas. What knowledge you do have you probably got from Wikipedia and the History channel.

I reckon you have always wanted to be something like an anthropologist or archaeologist or historian but got stuck working as just an engineer all your life. How sad. But you're not alone.

Swamp donkey,

You haven't seen me do anything because this is an online forum.

Are you retarded.