[PEN-L:6680] Re: Re: Re: Econometrics

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Biology (of the Shockley-Jensen-Murray type)  has played and continues to play an important role in the ideology of racist and sexist legitimation of the system. Economics can demonstrate the persistent differences in economic status, but differerent forms of racism and sexism "rationalize" the difference and remove the blame from capitalism. Overall, I guess I agree that economics is plays a bigger day-to-day role in false consciousness, perhaps. Also, some biology plays a progressive role in its struggle with religion.

Charles Brown

>>> Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 05/11/99 01:21PM >>>
>Natural science may be corrupt - a servant of power, money, and orthodoxy -
>but I don't think you could sustain this kind of untruth for 30 years in
>physics or biology, could you?

Economics is a more ideological subject than biology or physics, partly
because economics is so much more crucial to legitimating the system. That
is, economics' corruption is more systematic: individual biologists sell
out to drug industry, but the dominant school of economics as a whole has
sold out.

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