Larry Boland was a colleague and one of the few people in economics
at Simon Fraser that I could/can talk with. (I occasionally pass on
pae stuff to him.) His focus was methodology and happily got over his
heavy Popperian (more, Joseph Agassi) fixation. A teacher who
actually got students to think--- a painful process for some (the way
he put them on the spot), so student evaluations were quite bimodal
if I recall correctly. Probably fighting retirement now-- one of the
last uncloned there.
michael
At 22:20 01/02/2006, you wrote:
Does anybody know anything about this guy (Boland)?
That you can download his books is pretty cool.
When I sell my house I'll be able to buy one of Perelman's books.
mbs
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From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of michael
perelman
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 8:16 PM
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Subject: Interesting take on the hegemony of conservatism in economics
Book Proposal
What follows is an interesting review of Mirowski's new book. Within
the review, a couple of points stand out:
"One could say that even though the economics of research matters, it is
not a "market place of ideas" as some would claim, but (I would say) a
competition for "shelf space." As is well known in the grocery store
business with the Pepsi-Coke wars, this is not really a case of perfect
competition."
"But since economics today is being taught as if it is a matter of
catechism rather than critical thinking, there is probably not much hope."
Published by EH.NET (February 2006)
Philip Mirowski, _The Effortless Economy of Science?_ Durham, NC: Duke
University Press, 2004. v + 463 pp. $25 (paperback), ISBN: 0-8223-3322-8.
Reviewed for EH.NET by Lawrence Boland, Department of Economics, Simon
Fraser University.
Michael A. Lebowitz
Professor Emeritus
Economics Department
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, B.C., Canada V5A 1S6
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