Re: [OPE-L] Derrida's ghosts

[Rakesh Bhandari <bhandari@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 20:29:30 -0400
 Allin Cottrell <cottrell@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Ian Wright wrote:
>
> > Why has this postmodern style of writing become popular in some
> > quarters?
>
> Hypothesis: Picking up on and emulating this style requires a fair
> degree of intelligence and a fair amount of reading in the style.
> So being able to do it is a badge of some sort: membership of the
> smart club.  On the other hand, acquiring the knack of writing in
> this style is much easier than acquiring a good working knowledge of
> a (any) scientific discipline, so it's an easier entree to getting
> recognition and publishing your work.

Isn't that what real scientists say about economists?

Not only that, but you get to
> feel superior to those toiling in specific scientific disciplines,

Hasn't someone say said something about the imperialism
of the so called queen of the social sciences?


> since the standpoint of "deconstruction" gives you an Olympian
> overview of all human intellectual activity (denials of "privilege"
> to particular levels of discourse, blah blah etc, notwithstanding).

As economists think they have some Olympian overview of
the social world?   All of course on the basis of their "science"
whose basic methodological presupposition is comparative statics.

Rakesh



> Allin.