________________________________ > Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 21:36:09 -0800 > From: [email protected]
> Thomas Piketty’s new book, “Capital in the Twenty-First > Century,”described by one French newspaper as a “a political and > theoretical bulldozer,” defies left and right orthodoxy by arguing that > worsening inequality is an inevitable outcome of free market > capitalism. ============ Following Bernard Harcourt and before him, the works of the legal realists and the cls folks and lord knows how many others, shouldn't we be railing against 'free market' like those in ages past railed against phlogiston and the aether? The ontology of capitalism is what needs to be overcome if human flourishing is to make it to the 23rd century. Getting rid of the rhetoric/grammar/psuedoepistemology of 'the free market' is surely part of that struggle and the history of the sciences furnishes us with more than an adequate number of examples of referential failure to support the project of large scale belief change in the sociology of the profession. Attack the very vocabulary, too! I'm being serious, btw. E. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
