I have some archival material along these lines that I’ve been sitting on precisely b/c I’m trying to determine what the actually useful analysis is. Otherwise it’s just revelations w/o meaning. Learning about it matters but the end goal must be more than a data dump. 2/
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I think it would be useful to move the conversation up to this level every once in a while to take stock and reorient: what are we trying to accomplish with these socio-political histories of economics and how should we do them to achieve what we’re trying to accomplish. 3/
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One last point: I’m not saying Calvin is doing a data dump. He’s got a very coherent paper in-process. But it’s always something to be thinking about. 4/
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One more thing I want to say on this: historians of economics need to be very careful about the boundaries between history of economics and histories of conservatism. They obviously have a lot of important overlap and should draw on each other. 5/
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MacLean - whatever you think of her book - clearly ran into major problems because she's a historian of conservatism trying to do history of economics that she wasn't prepared to do. Historians of economics often face the same obstacles in reverse. 6/
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We say something intelligent and on-point about Buchanan or Friedman or Tullock or Stigler and then we try to extrapolate a history of conservatism from it. Generally we're not equipped to do that (I'm certainly not), and should be wary of it. 7/
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Wary doesn’t mean don’t cross-pollinate. I think the interaction between the two communities is great. Just something to be aware of. 8/
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Replying to @D_Kuehn
I think historians of economics haven't grappled with fact figures like Stigler/Buchanan/Friedman were major political actors (and operators) as well as working in an academic discipline. That's a huge (perhaps lethal) failing.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
I think it’s always been clear to people with Friedman. I think the rest is being increasingly appreciated.
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