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Economics professors

Regarding this bit: Economics professors argue that the threat of unemployment is necessary to maintain incentives to high productivity (and simultaneously that established professors require life tenure in order to do their best work). First, could you please cite a page number, as is the practice for referring to books? Second, this is obviously a jibe at "economics professors". If it is to be included, then it needs to be referred as a criticism from JKG, rather than simply as fact. As fact, it's far too broad, as there are many economics professors who don't argue those things. CRETOG8(t/c) 00:00, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

if you think economics professors do not like life tenure then ... i think it is fair to assume that human being value security. Nevertheless, I think Galbraith knows more than most people about the views of economics professors. on the page of the book, give me a break, first go around and wine about all book references without a page, and then when you are consistent in your actions, you can come back and request things from others as if you are in charge here. --DTMGO (talk) 00:09, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:V#Burden_of_evidence: "Editors should cite sources fully, providing as much publication information as possible, including page numbers when citing books." I can check a page to verify what Galbraith says, it's not reasonable to expect me to read the whole book to see if you're citing him correctly.CRETOG8(t/c) 00:15, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

Excuse me I did not know you are an editor now. --DTMGO (talk) 02:04, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

Not sure what you mean. You & I are both editors. Thanks for the page number, now I have to see if I can actually find my copy of the book. I'm still not sure it's an appropriate addition for that context, but I'll leave that for later, or for someone who's more interested in this article than I am. CRETOG8(t/c) 03:43, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

Found the relevant pages on Google books. I think you're just barely on the right side of WP:OR, but that you are on the right side. Still not sure whether it's appropriate in the context, but I'll leave that for someone else. CRETOG8(t/c) 13:41, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

I think the quip about economics professors should be removed. It's an irrelevant ad hominem. JKG seems to be implying that those professors are being hypocritical by telling people they ought not to seek job security. However, economics is not the study of how individuals ought to behave, it is the study of the use of scarce resources that have alternative uses. Those economics professors did not claim that people ought not to seek job security for themselves, but that governments pursuing maximum job security as a policy goal would lead to the inefficient use of scarce resources that have alternative uses. -G Petersen — Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.250.240.185 (talk) 06:02, 22 September 2011 (UTC)