Thanks very much to Shane in comments
Phil Mirowski, on the state of economics, who is always worth reading. Not sure if I agree with him on everything (the preoccupation of heterodox economists with arguing about methodology rather than going out and doing some economists is a real bugbear), but good stuff withal.
(the preoccupation of heterodox economists with arguing about methodology rather than going out and doing some economists is a real bugbear)
ReplyDeleteIs this a typo or not? Flashman's method of learning a foreign language comes to mind.
After reading the article several times I'm not sure what it is that he is actually arguing *for*.
ReplyDeleteThe keening public? That is one of the few economic texts that would be improved in terms of style by a few equations.
ReplyDeleteMirowski's article was disappointing. Not much in it. I'm still hoping he'll dumb down his markomata idea enough for me to understand it.
ReplyDeleteJamie Galbraith has a great little essay encouraging the heterodox to get on with it. Peter Dorman has a good one too, "What would a scientific economics look like?" (his answer is biology). My bet is that in the future the best economics will come out of the video game industry.
Maybe somebody wants to take a run at this one: Inherent Vice: Minsky, Markomata, and the tendency of markets to undermine themselves
ReplyDeleteHee, hee! Richard J. beat me to it. Looking forward eagerly to the report!
ReplyDeleteOn going out and doing some economics, I agree. Barkley Rosser Jr. spoke to some of that [.doc] here.
ReplyDeleteOh, I think I meant "Live and Dead Issues in the Methodology of Economics," available here.
ReplyDeleteIt was a typo but I think I will let it stay. Everyone should go out and do a couple of economists once in a while.
ReplyDeleteThanks again - Barkley is one of the guys I was thinking about on the PKT list - he's not particularly left wing as far as I recall, he's just a very heterodox economist.
ReplyDelete(Jamie Galbraith is the guy who hetecons should really emulate - he's just spent the last ten years getting on with doing really useful work at the Texas Inequality Project)
ReplyDeleteTexas Inequality Project
ReplyDeleteNow that's what I call matching the product to the brand.
"the preoccupation of heterodox economists with arguing about methodology rather than going out and doing some economists in is a real bugbear"
ReplyDeleteCan we do this one?
ReplyDeleteNow that's what I call matching the product to the brand.
ReplyDeleteI think they're against, rather than for. (Cf. Tom Lehrer: "My cause is obscenity. I'm for it.")