Sahlins -- McCloskey as Unconscious Anthropologist

[Carrol Cox]

While she of course doesn't admit it, Deidre McCloskey's *Rhetoric*
has already performed the service Rakesh suggests. Her libertarianism or
professional arrogance or egotism or what have you blinds her to her
own thorough trashing of the profession.

Carrol

Doug Henwood wrote:


> Rakesh Bhandari wrote:
>
> >By the way,  I have quoted from Mattick Jr's book Social Knowledge on the
> >need for an anthropological investigation of the discourse of economics  as
> >conceptually incoherent, internally contradictory, and empirically
> >disconfirmed but still so vital in the reproduction of a certain form of
> >social life that its absurdity is systematically not questioned.
>
> Yes, someone should definitely do this. Any volunteers here?
>
> Doug