raghu wrote: > What I have been trying to > say is Alan Blinder and the behaviorists are no Copernicus.
I agree with that. (Blinder is also no Dan Quayle.) But I doubt that anyone on pen-l thinks that AB and the Bs are in the same league as Copernicus. My point, however, is that it's typically events in the real -- non-academic -- world that lead to real "paradigm shifts." It's not the brilliance or tenacity of the thinker. The role of the behaviorists is more a matter of mice gnawing at the edges of the neoclassical research program. Blinder is more a guy who's hearkening back to the old versions of neoclassical ideology (before the neoliberal age), ideas of the sort pushed by James Tobin and the like. -- Jim Devine / "The truth is at once less sinister and more dangerous." -- Naomi Klein.
