Those aren't scare quotes. Those are quotes.

On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Eubulides <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On May 14, 2014, at 10:33 AM, Tom Walker <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure how "comprehensive" Lawrence Summers's take on Piketty's
> arguments is. Inequality has "microfoundations" to use the "dry
> technocratic prose of most contemporary academic economists." And those
> microfoundations have been both concealed by the technocratic prose and
> reinforced by the resulting policy advice of academic economists,
> prominently including Dr. Summers.
>
>
> =======
>
> There are no microfoundations. Quit using the scare quotes to ease your
> colleagues into the uncomfortable position of coming to terms with the
> ubiquity of referential failure of many concepts in political economy
> constructed since WWII. Technocratic prose conceals nothing; it constructs
> a regime of truth, just like the followers of Thomas Aquinas did.
>
> Who will let the fly out of the fly bottle?
>
> E.
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Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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