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I associate the University of Chicago with a kind of religious exercise in economic theory, a movement dedicated to justifying a political stance in pseudo-inte
by cowpig 1y ago
I associate the University of Chicago with a kind of religious exercise in economic theory, a movement dedicated to justifying a political stance in pseudo-intellectualism at the direct expense of empiricism.
The University of Chicago is basically Number Go Up University.
I don't see why this university, out of all of the high-prestige American schools, would care about humanities in a time when the conservative political movement has wholly embraced anti-intellectualism. The political movement no longer cares about presenting Number Go Up Theory as some kind of elite intellectual practice.
- wl 1y agoU Chicago is far more than Booth and the economics department.
- robotresearcher 1y agoThey were also the university of Michelson, Fermi and Gell-Mann, and many winners of the Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry. Chicago is a heavy hitter.
- wdr1 1y agoIndeed. The U of C is affiliated 101 Nobel Laureates (amongst the highest in the world) -- not to mention 10 Fields Medalists, 4 Turing Award winners, 58 MacArthur Fellows, 30 Marshall Scholars, & 55 Rhodes Scholars.