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Search Results for: discursive collapse
Discursive collapse – discursive reversal: the micro-foundations
I’ve written about the phenomenon of discursive collapse several times on Troppo. The engine behind the phenomenon is the desire of the discipline to get on with what it’s been doing – filling out some well recognised and somehow aesthetically pleasing … Continue reading
Discursive Collapse
In the second of what is turning into a great series of posts Richard Green has been discussing economic methodology with a bunch of us, most particularly Paul Frijters. In the last post Richard says this: The 1st generation of … Continue reading
Posted in Economics and public policy
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The ghost of Descartes: Why is economics so uninterested in practical problem solving?
Initially published as Part One. Now with the final two sections added. Minds are not for thinking, traditionally conceived, but for doing, for getting things done in the world in real time Wilson and Foglia, “Embodied Cognition“, Stanford Encyclopedia of … Continue reading
Care: the essay
This essay is the third of three starting with my essay on the Evaluator General in two parts followed by an essay responding to the Productivity Commission’s inquiry into competition in human services. Part One A couple of days ago I came upon care ethics via … Continue reading
Economists as engineers and humbler, better scientists
Here’s a paragraph I wrote about fifteen years ago. The culture of economic expertise places inadequate weight on integrating insights from multiple perspectives, that it frequently places an unreasonably high ‘burden of proof’ on heterodox views, and that it has … Continue reading
Posted in Economics and public policy, Methodology, Philosophy
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The Origins of Homo Economicus
The New Yorker has just produced this profile of Paul Krugman. In it we read the following passage. It isnt that freshwater types believe that actual people are perfectly rationalthey just believe that making that assumption enables a more rigorous … Continue reading
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Practical steps towards Ivan Illich’s world
I. Introduction Owing to quite a bit of recent hoopla about him, I’ve recently been reading Ivan Illich. Like the Molière character who discovers he’s been speaking prose his whole life, I discover I’ve been thinking a little like Illich for … Continue reading
