@annelies_goger @LipstickEcon @joelle_gamble @DissentMag And you can't forget the super meta analysis of sociologists studying sociologists studying economists 🤯: https://t.co/O0dbxF4jnB
When Friedrich Hayek lamented the "pretense of knowledge" in economics, he probably didn't realize how accurately he was summing up the failings of his field. This essay by Marion Fourcade gives a great picture of the disgraced discipline. https://t.co/
"The “pretense of knowledge” in economics...the belief that [it] can provide clear, complete, effective, & unbiased answers to most social problems—has its roots in liberal political culture, and specifically in the role of the market as a “regime of t
Interesting read. Economics: the view from below by Marion Fourcade, https://t.co/io8IKGP4cs "In the end, the economists’ willingness to intervene may be among the forces that fuel, rather than diminish, the radical indeterminacy and ever changing characte