Why Economics is Better Than Sociology
7 July 2006 at 9:34 am Peter Klein 7 comments
| Peter Klein |
We have the American Association of Wine Economists. Tell me, where is the American Association of Wine Sociologists?
Clearly economists, like blondes, have more fun. (Please keep other blonde analogies to yourself.)









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C. Grammich | 7 July 2006 at 5:20 pm
Fair point, but methinks researching the sociology of leisure might still beat researching the economics of leisure . . .
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Peter Klein | 7 July 2006 at 5:34 pm
Touche!
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brayden | 7 July 2006 at 8:53 pm
I propose a generalization – For every weird economic association, you will find 10 weird sociological associations.
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C. Grammich | 7 July 2006 at 10:16 pm
*Only* ten?
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C. Grammich | 7 July 2006 at 10:28 pm
Incidentally, I just googled the phrase “sociology of wine” and found more than one institution of higher education has a course devoted at least in part to it. I did not find any association of wine sociologists. But I may consider rejoining ASA if anybody should start the appropriate section–even though, like Tom T. Hall, I rather like beer . . .
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teppof | 8 July 2006 at 6:27 pm
The number of studies on wineries (e.g., population ecology) by sociologists far outweighs the number of studies on wineries by economists. The same goes for breweries.
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JC | 9 July 2006 at 7:03 pm
I was just in the Cock & Bottle pub in Bradford – dates back to the early 1600s i.e. before there were any economists and is complete with ancient escape tunnels and plentiful rats- and they have a microbrewery there. Their prize-winning beer is Old Jockstrap. How’s that for some real sociology!