>> >>BTW, what's your alternative. (I am NOT telling you to put up or shut >>up. But I do think that it's best to have alternative rather than >>simply trashing the hegemonic school of economics. If there's no >>alternative, good-hearted and even smart lefty economists might be >>tempted to drink the kool-aid and become lefty neoclassicals or >>worse.) >>-- >>Jim Devine / "The truth is at once less sinister and more dangerous." >>-- Naomi Klein. >> >> >I agree. I used to bristle when people said "you can't beat something with >nothing" or "you can't defeat a theory unless you come up with another one." >You can, though at a cost. Sociology pulled down the structural-functionalist >hegemony without replacing it with another. Now sociological theory resembles >Berlin in the 20s or Beirut in the 70s: different factions shooting at each >other, no one strong enough to take over, nonparticipants fleeing for safer >ground, in sociology called "grounded theory". > >Fortunately the group called "heterodox economists" is beginning to coalesce, >though still a far cry from having a paradigm as comprehensive as the >neoclassicals or the Marxists. > >
Let me clarify the last paragraph. By heterodox economists I mean the real ones, e.g. http://www.heterodoxeconomics.net
