Talk:Lifeboat economics

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[edit] Inappropriate advertising, NPoV, external reference to a non-economist's opinion piece

The concluding line, "A paper titled Ayn Rand and Contemporary Business Ethics by Stephen R. C. Hicks describes Lifeboat Economics in a coherent manner", looks like advertising for one article by one author. There must be many, many papers on that subject; I see no reason to sacrifice Wikipedia's NPV to boost one writer's article over others'.

Worse, "...in a coherent manner" is a judgement call that sounds like non-NPV or original research.

Still worse... who's this Stephen R. C. Hicks? He's NOT an economist. Googling for his name shows that he is a professor of philosophy, mainly interested in Ayn Rand's "Objectivist" philosophy. His area of expertise has little or nothing to do with this article....so why is his opinion given exclusive advertising in this article?

Let's remove that line, or turn it into a NPV list of external reference articles about "lifeboat economics".Sethnessatwikipedia (talk) 04:49, 17 May 2008 (UTC)