[lbo-talk] Digestimundo vavavoom

uvj at vsnl.com uvj at vsnl.com
Sun Jun 5 17:21:03 PDT 2005


Autoplectic wrote:


>"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]

How about explaining the behaviour of Marxists on the basis of Marxist theory? :)

Ulhas



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