> Sometimes it seems rather more deliberate than (mostly spontaneous)
> ideology. I mean, it's hard to believe (and I usually prefer totake
> people at face value for critical purposes) that some big-shot
> economists honestly believe themselves. One quite slight indicatin would
> be that in some past periods strongly anti-marxist economists would
> never the less tolerate ther "non-orthodox" econooomists in t heir
> journals and their departments, but that hasn't been so for a long time.
> What are they afraid of?
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Epistemic inadequacy. Think analogously of the silly folk theories regarding men with small peckers.
"Fears generated science, as uncontrollable anxiety" [Bill Nelson]
Ian