tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510749443422882016.post7689249693030741146..comments2023-12-02T00:41:36.253-08:00Comments on Thoughts: Reform or crisis management?jan joost teunissenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14018967221957534084noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510749443422882016.post-85424438479606055112009-06-04T00:13:05.618-07:002009-06-04T00:13:05.618-07:00Hi Jan,
Do you agree with Adam Smith in this inte...Hi Jan,<br /><br />Do you agree with Adam Smith in this interview?<br /><br /><a href="http://www.lavanguardia.es/lacontra/lacontra.html" rel="nofollow">La Contra</a>Elvirahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07277831648954508282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510749443422882016.post-54469325187312528972009-05-28T02:20:05.642-07:002009-05-28T02:20:05.642-07:00Nothing to apologise about, really!
This time you...Nothing to apologise about, really!<br /><br />This time you made me laugh with your translation!<br /><br />"vision requires analysis and intuition (ideals, utopia) and economic analysis requires both a distant (detached) and intimate (committed) look" I totally agree with you! Very well put! We need to see from a distance, we need perspective to see things clearly, but then we also need empathy, which is what the intimate, commited look brings. Thank you for your thoughts!<br /><br />Greetings from Barcelona!Elvirahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07277831648954508282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510749443422882016.post-85628682316753454562009-05-28T01:05:52.038-07:002009-05-28T01:05:52.038-07:00Please skip "with" in "with less wordy"... You see...Please skip "with" in "with less wordy"... You see, this time I made a correction, but forgot to delete "with".jan joost teunissenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14018967221957534084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510749443422882016.post-66167662052527999992009-05-28T01:02:26.153-07:002009-05-28T01:02:26.153-07:00Reading what I just said, I see it's messy. I coul...Reading what I just said, I see it's messy. I could have said simply, vision requires analysis and intuition (ideals, utopia) and economic analysis requires both a distant (detached) and intimate (committed) look.<br /><br />Any Spanish-speaking person would have said the same more elegantly (more coherently and with less wordy) than I did apologising myself for being "latin" influenced!jan joost teunissenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14018967221957534084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510749443422882016.post-51907748391590407242009-05-28T00:41:11.128-07:002009-05-28T00:41:11.128-07:00Elvira: reform needs vision, and vision needs both...Elvira: reform needs vision, and vision needs both analysis and intuition, each one feeding upon the other. Many economists forget that intuition helps making good analysis -- analysis that does not limit itself to "objective" analysis or, even worse, that only serves to confirm existing power structures and dynamics is not what I consider good analysis, though I tend to take a distant look -- and that it certainly helps in creating a vision of a better system.<br /><br />Sorry for being a bit wordy but I just come from a Spanish-speaking environment and tend to be "verboso" when I still think in Spanish and think loudly without prior reflection on what I'm saying. Also my apologies for associating Spanish with verbosity... I remember, though, that I once translated a beautiful long sentence in a speech by a Chilean former minister by saying (in Dutch): "He said about the same of what he said before but very nicely."<br /><br />The minister, a friend of mine, had to laugh (he understood Dutch).<br /><br />Greetings from Amsterdam (you made me think too!)jan joost teunissenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14018967221957534084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3510749443422882016.post-69783285504343280352009-05-28T00:09:42.205-07:002009-05-28T00:09:42.205-07:00I know nothing about the international monetary sy...I know nothing about the international monetary system, but I love Triffin's quote. I don't think we should confuse realism with simple selfishness and lack of vision. There are things that are too far from reality and they indeed should be called utopian, but some "less selfish" ways of approaching the solution of world problems are necessary and real. I wouldn't even call that a utopia, but an urgent necessity.<br /><br />Greetings from Barcelona (you made me think!)Elvirahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07277831648954508282noreply@blogger.com