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                                             February 6, 2012

  The good-old Not-Invented-Here
  Syndrome (for once, not a "syndrome"
  of my own inventions), has at it's
  root an "affinity bias":                  Paul Krugman often talks about
                                            the odd ignorance of the "fresh
  Intellectuals will sometimes              water" economists...  they
  ignore thinkers from another              criticize the "New Keynsians"
  group, with the feeling that              constantly, but don't seem to
  they're not one of "ours".                have read much of their work.

      The progress of                                    GYROLOCK
      science requires
      people working in                     Krugman himself, at least in
      different groups to                   younger days, apparently fell
      act as a check on                     into a trap like: "I am an
      each other.                           Economist, I only need to pay
                                            attention to other Economists."
      Social concerns,                      And missed some relevent material
      a sense of group                      from other fields ("domain
      identity,                             knowledge" and "discipline
      interfering with                      knowledge" are not the same).
      the free exchange
      of ideas.
                            Stated like that, it's
                            easy to sneer, but some
      Many social           sort of judgement of who
      divisions are         is worth paying attention
      capable of            to is required.                 NEED_TO_KNOW
      creating
      problems like                 So, this is a necessary      TWO_LEVEL
      this, perhaps                 mechanism that sometimes
      *any* division                becomes broken.              GARDNER
      is capable of
      doing so.


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