I think the non-left-wing ideas Nate is referring to are "Markets work very well a lot of the time" and "Capitalism is a system based on free exchange rather than exploitation."
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Replying to @jakebackpack
I assume his point is that those are ideas that are generally treated as false in sociology and anthropology depts (and English and comp lit if you include liberal arts departments), so it's good that the econ dept is there to provide some balance.
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Replying to @JamesSurowiecki @jakebackpack
I think this is a misunderstanding of how academic disciplines work. The main divisions in, say, lit departments is not left/right but close reading, theory, sociology/history etc. I'll note that most influential of all (close reading) was promulgated by racist white Southerners
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Replying to @HeerJeet @jakebackpack
That's irrelevant to the point that you're incredibly unlikely to get a New Historicist English professor (or today's equivalent) whose work is informed by an awareness of the virtues of markets.
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Replying to @JamesSurowiecki @jakebackpack
Since market fundamentalism is falling out fashion even in economics, I don't see why literary scholars should adopt it. In any case, the anti-market bias in literary studies has historically come from the right (Coleridge/Arnold/Eliot/New Critics).
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I don't think any of those guys are as influential as Adorno, Benjamin, Raymond Williams, Jameson in today's academy.
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In The Free World, Menand makes a persuasive case that New Criticism remains foundational to American literary scholarship and that later turns of "theory" are outgrowths rather than fundamental changes.
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