[lbo-talk] jobs for medievalists

Ted Winslow egwinslow at rogers.com
Tue Mar 30 05:10:01 PST 2004


Daniel Davies wrote:


> I hear that this one hasn't been filled yet ... strangely enough the
> combination of financial economics and Medieval Latin isn't a
> particularly
> popular skillset.

There's a fit in mindset though - "scholasticism" in the sense of "treating what is vague as if it were precise and trying to fit it into into an exact logical category." Bedlamite economics linked to Bedlamite theology (as in "starting from a mistake, a remorseless logician can end up in Bedlam").

Ted



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