social science production (was: Dark Sides of 'Solidarity'?)

[Richard Marens]

analytic standards?  As in the work of the "new-institutionalists" for
whom present day corporate structures are the result, not of history,
politics or power, but the result of some darwinian struggle that
heightens something called efficiency?  (Has any Stalinist ever written a
more self-serving careerist synchophantic piece than, for example, the
Alchian and Demetz article that has been sighted literally thousands of
times over the last generation?)

Or the use of "exogenous shocks" to conveniently explain anamolies?  Or
how about the demographic idiocy of the Natural Rate of Unemployment (a
younger workforce doesn't mind being out of work from time to time) or
"blame the CPI or productivity figures" when they don't give the right
answer?  Or that old fallback, stock price volatility is related to
something called "information?"  The list of unexamined ideas taken
seriously is endless.