A flight of pelicansI wonder if there is a better.
Is nothing lovelier to look at;
The flight of the planets is nothing nobler; all the arts lose virtue
Against the essential reality
Of creatures going about their business among the equally
Earnest elements of nature.
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Best-Ever Economics Poem?
What is the best-ever economics poem? I would nominate Robinson Jeffers' "Boats in a Fog," available here. I quote only the climax:
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I kind of like the Shakespearian sonnet that begins, "The expense of spirit in a waste of shame is lust in action; and till action, lust is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame...."
I mean, is this about deficit spending and the motivations surrounding it, or what?
And by the way, who said economics ain't sexy?
Yours crankily,
The New York Crank
Thomas Thornley, The 'Economic' Man (A Study in Deductive Political Economy):
Companion of my wasted youth!
With whom my infant fancy played,
I took thee once for sober truth,
In quaint habiliments arrayed;
In thy strange 'laws' I loved to trace
The custom of a vanished race.
And, when maturer thought betrayed
The fact that thou hadst never been,
I let my former fancy fade,
And set thee in a fairer scene,
In prophet vision saw thee rise,
In some industrial paradise.
But now, as waking from a trance,
I know thee for the thing thou art,
A sordid hero of romance,
A mummer with a foolish part,
A joke economists have made,
A ghost which common sense has laid.
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