On economists, sociologists and evil - an anecdote ;-) and an insight, from Paul Krugman. When I went to graduate school, I took international trade from Jagdish Bhagwati who explained to his class his personal theory of reincarnation which was that if you are a good economist, the virtuous economist, you are reborn as a physicist. But if you are an evil, wicked economist, you are reborn as a sociologist :-) By which he did not mean, by the way, that #sociologists are bad people. What he meant is that the subject is even harder than economics to do. So, but this is primarily going to be about economics which doesnt mean that we have all the answers. And I think if there is one thing that we [#economists] have learned, by the way, pretty hard over the last is that we do not have all the answers and thats a good thing to remember. This extract is from #PaulKrugmans lecture at the American Sociological Association 2004 annual meeting, full transcript of which is enclosed. It presents an interesting analysis of neoliberalism and globalization mostly because things have been said in 2004. The transcript also include the remarks by Fernando Henrique Cardoso- an influential sociologist who became the President of Brazil, on the same issues in Latin American context. videoarchive.asanet.org/player/download/index.php?presentation_id=289&download_id=987
Posted on: Sun, 02 Nov 2014 16:39:21 +0000
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