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> On Dec 27, 2016, at 7:50 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism > <marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > > Today’s professional economists, by contrast, have studied almost nothing but > economics. They don’t even read the classics of their own discipline. > Economic history comes, if at all, from data sets. Philosophy, which could > teach them about the limits of the economic method, is a closed book. > Mathematics, demanding and seductive, has monopolized their mental horizons. > The economists are the idiots savants of our time. There’s a nice two-part lecture by SOAS’ Ben Fine on Youtube that explores this ground further: Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbawrxfmqhg <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbawrxfmqhg> Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEDniCBl4kE <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEDniCBl4kE> _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
