ARNOLD KLING
August 14, 2011
The Top Political Contributors
August 11, 2011
Gender and the New Commanding Heights
August 11, 2011
Jamie Galbraith Makes an Assumption
August 11, 2011
Macroeconometrics: The Science of Hubris
August 10, 2011
Real and Nominal Bond Yields
BRYAN CAPLAN
August 14, 2011
The Effect of Thumb Sucking on Income
August 12, 2011
The Voice of Cold, Hard Truth to All Would-Be Educators
August 12, 2011
Ability, Morality, and Prosperity: A Paper and a Report
August 11, 2011
The Theory of Time and Frittering
August 10, 2011
Male Variance and the Remnants of the Gender Gap
DAVID HENDERSON
August 9, 2011
Hayek in "Unbroken", Part Two
August 8, 2011
Hayek in "Unbroken"
August 5, 2011
James Bovard on the Peace Corps
August 4, 2011
Summers Way Off on FDR and 1941
August 3, 2011
The "Amazon" Tax
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Yes. That is the great transformation of modern popular economics. It is finally recognized that economic activity is inextricably linked to sociology in multiple ways. It is the only reason that economics is successfully being used at all to intervene in the ongoing political fetish for social engineering.
Increasingly, fields are defined by their methodology, not their "themes". Economic imperialism (or for that matter, physical imperialism into biology, computer science, "econophysics") is the outcome because right now, positivism and empirical (quant) studies are "in", at least in the US. If instead the "in" method was postmodernism, we'd see literary imperialism or somesuch as was (briefly?) observed in France.
Once you all tire of writing footnotes to Smith and Ricardo, why not become sociologists? After all, the present incumbents have achieved nothing of note.
This is where 'Rational Man' comes to the rescue. Dah da da dah!