My attitude is that the problem is that the topics covered by sociology are just _more difficult_ than those covered by economics, and economists are clever enough to try to answer the easier questions. Interpersonal relations, culture, tradition, etc. are much more complex than markets.
On 2/17/06, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> "'President Summers asked me, didn't I agree that, in general,
> economists are smarter than political scientists, and political
> scientists are smarter than sociologists?' [former Dean] Ellison
> said. 'To which I laughed nervously and didn't reply.'"
-- Jim Devine / Bust Big Brother Bush!
"There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil." -- Alfred North Whitehead