Monday, October 5, 2015

Guess you can tell who is not a cultural anthropologist

From The Science of Liberty: Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of Nature by Timothy Ferris.

Speaking of the poor repute in which economics is held in some quarters.
Part of this is guilt by association. As a social science, economics tends to get lumped in with "soft" disciplines like cultural anthropology, much of which reads like fairy tales translated into Esperanto, and the psychoanalysis of Sigmund Freud, who discovered nothing and cured nobody.

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