On 2/23/2012 10:57 AM, George Plimpton wrote:

Political science is little better, and to the extent it is, it's
because of the influence of economics. Economics "colonized" political
science starting about 30 or 40 years ago. Political science used to be
like sociology - nothing but political opinion. The economists "invaded"
poli sci and began to explain political phenomena - voting behavior,
party strategy - that the political scientists had never been able to
explain. The political scientists now use the methods of quantitative
taught to them by economists as everyday practice. But you wouldn't have
learned anything about that at Chico.


Every time you write something it exposes the level of your ignorance.

No.

Your "history" of political science is wrong.

No, it's right. Why don't you ask some people in the field...people at a
good school, not a ******** like Chico.


Political science didn't come out of economics it came out of history.

I didn't say poli sci "came out of" economics, you dumb fat ****; can't
you read? I said it was stumbling along a lot like sociology up until
the 1960s, when economics "invaded" it and taught the political
scientists how to do quantitative analysis. They did that because
economists began to measure things that poli sci /should/ have been
analyzing, but never could, such as why people vote.

So when did you invent that nice little fairy tale? Yesterday? I see you
have no citations proving a single word. What's your problem? Got no
references? Gee I'm shocked. It would have been nice for you to have
told us where you got this information but I already know. You ****ing
made it up. Talk about a jerk. You can't prove a point so you have to
fabricate it out of wholecloth. You are a prolific liar.



Unlike you I actually attended college at Chico state and

...and acquired a ****ty degree in a weak field at a ****ty school. Yes,
we know.

Says who? Got any cites saying Chico is a bad school? of course not
because you just made that up too like you do for everything you say.
You just make it all up and think people will believe it. No one does.
You provide no citations while asking for them from everyone else. You
claim to know about things you have no education or experience in, and
you have a B.S. that is so old you wouldn't even know what they were
talking about in a modern economics class. You're old, and out of date,
and you have only one degree and you seem to be an authority in all
subjects. Huh, you sound exactly like someone else around here. Yeah,
you know who, his name starts with the letter G. You may be a bigger
liar than he is though. It's close.

Hawke