http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/24/upshot/how-economists-came-to-dominate-the-conversation.html
Have we reached peak economist? Two hundred years ago, the field of economics barely existed. Today, it is arguably the queen of the social sciences. [snip] ["The conversation"; anti-pluralist unconsciousness at work.] "The chief problem with modernism, say, the postmodernists, is its loony aspiration to speechlessness. Shut up: I have a proof. Shut up: this is avant-garde painting. Shut up." [Deirdre McCloskey] _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
