[lbo-talk] Digestimundo vavavoom

Autoplectic autoplectic at gmail.com
Sun Jun 5 17:08:15 PDT 2005


On 6/5/05, Michael Perelman <michael at ecst.csuchico.edu> wrote:
> Stigler, George J. 1982. "Do Economists Matter?" in The Economist as Preacher (Oxford:
> Basil Blackwell): pp. 54-67.
> 60: "economists do not relish an explanation of their own scientific behavior in ordinary
> economic terms. To tell an economist that he chooses that type of work and viewpoint which
> will maximize his income is, he will hotly say, is [sic] a studied insult."

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See also:

Economists: truth-seekers or rent-seekers by Jesus Zamora Bonilla in "Fact and Fiction in Economics: Models, Realism and Social Construction" Edited by Uskali Mäki [Cambridge U. Press]

"There is something very curious about explaining the activity of economists on the basis of an economic theory of behavior. Should we not then be able to explain the behavior of the economist who is trying to explain the behavior of economists on the basis of economic theory, on the basis of economic theory too? Where do such explanations end?" [D. Wade Hands in "Science Bought and Sold: Essays in the Economics of Science" ed. by Philip Mirowski and Esther Mirjam Sent, U. of Chicago Press]

-- "Life sure is weird but what else am I to know?" [Jason Pierce]



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