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Meh. Economics is far more guilty of that than any of the other social sciences.
by soVeryTired 7y ago
Meh. Economics is far more guilty of that than any of the other social sciences.
- barry-cotter 7y agoThere haven’t been any “scholar-activist” heads of the AEA, have there, because there have been of the ASA.
- soVeryTired 7y agoUmm Milton Friedman in 1967?
- jackcosgrove 7y agoI'm not sure. Economics draws a lot of fire because it is more quantitative. Things that are measured are easier to track when something changes. The more qualitative social sciences advocate for their policies using critiques of mores expressed in natural language, and this triggers behavioral change in a more subtle way. There is less of a "paper trail" to look back on, so it's hard to know how much something changed and how fast, or what caused the change. Academically it would be very interesting to quantify the "memetic rate of change" triggered by introducing an argument into a population.