I Almost Became A Political Journalist, Having

Most Economics That Is Taught In College And Universities Today Projects Itself As A Value-neutral Science. This Claim Has Always Been Open To Question, But I Think It's Especially In Doubt Today.

I Would Include Non-medical Sex Selection As One Of Those Practices That I Think Is Morally Questionable And That Can Carry Adverse Social Consequences.

I Think People Who Want To Use Genetic Technologies To Gain A Competitive Edge For Their Children Are Engaging In A Kind Of Overreaching That Could Really Undermine Our Appreciation Of Children As Gifts For Which We Should Be Grateful And, Instead, To View Them As Products Or Instruments That Are There To Be Molded And Directed.

Economics Has Increasingly Become The Science Of Human Behavior In General, And It's All The More Unlikely To Think That It Can Possibly Be Value-free - And, In Fact, It Isn't. Economics Rests On Un-argued Assumptions That Need To Be Examined.

I Find This In All These Places I've Been Travelling - From India To China, To Japan And Europe And To Brazil - There Is A Frustration With The Terms Of Public Discourse, With A Kind Of Absence Of Discussion Of Questions Of Justice And Ethics And Of Values.