Re: sociology of economic knowledge

["Perelman, Michael" <MPerelman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I doubt if anyone here except David Shemano would qualify for an academic job today.

 

 

Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Chico, CA 95929
530-898-5321
fax 530-898-5901

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Well, let's close "economics" departments.  Tom Walker says, from a different perspective, that criticizing "economics" makes one a crank.  Where in the USA is it permitted to teach "political economy"?  I recall a flap of some months ago where the "economists" united in an attempt to shut down the Notre Dame department == big names signing a letter to the effect that Notre Dame students wouldn'tr be admitted to "good" grad departments.  Perelman has remarked that he doubts if he could get a job these days -- don't recall the range of his possibilities.
    It is past time to contend that there is a possibility to "do good economics."

Gene Coyle

Jim Devine wrote:

Apologies to the other economists on this list, but if universities

have econ departments, why not Astrology, et al.?<

I gotta earn a living somehow. While I'm at it, I don't think it's

helpful to dismiss "economics" (an abstraction). Rather, the best

critique of bad economics is to do good economics (i.e., poltical

economy).

Someone said that the "war against terrorism" could only be eternal,

since you could never defeat an abstract noun. The same applies to the

abstract noun called economics.

JD