There's a really important conversation going on in economics about gender bias in the field. This is an illuminating thread reporting on a panel discussion about the topic.https://twitter.com/Claudia_Sahm/status/1081538196922683392 …
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probably not going to happen - economics is not a science in the physics sense of being a science its more like the psychology of people with money but that would cost academics a lot of grant money so no
The reaction to Democracy in Chains was 'polarized', because it was full of glaring inaccuracies that people across the political spectrum noticed - if bad history is discouraged that's a good thing, but it shouldn't discourage good historians, see @Undercoverhist for example
It feels like the 'new histories of capitalism' are tacking in that direction.
Philip Mirowski is doing some interesting work on this front. Also, Donald Mackenzie.
Start with @insatiableappe3 , a wonderful discussion of Adam Smith's work as the culmination of Locke, Hobbes, and Machiavelli's breaking with the pre-modern world's framework of human values.
There will be a polarized reactions to anything that has anything at all of substance to say, no matter what it is. That's just the world as it is.
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