efficient, therefor they have a low PPC, therefore they are bad!1 The only supportive evidence is that there are poor people in Cuba, which indeed shows the economic system there is not perfect. One can only hope this rather egalitarian analysis be applied to Canada or the USA, can you imagine the Harvard Economist: "The USA has so much poverty that Capitalism must be seen as an obsolete system - we must replace it." Comparing the same analysis that would not be given two different countries we see how economics can be used very illogically.
             Economists apologise for overt generalisation with absurd presuppositions: 'all things being equal,' perfect knowledge, rational self interest, absence of external influence. These are not situations that will ever occur and not ones that are very useful for deciding the fate of the hungry in all the nations.
             There is a common acceptance among economists of such unbelievable relations of cause and effect. William Lazonick of the Harvard Business School describes a certain typical economist who "used convention
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