Yet More on Economists and Sociologists

9 August 2006 at 1:45 pm 2 comments

| Peter Klein |

Adding more fuel to the fire are Gordon Smith and Larry Solom. Best line, from Gordon: “Economists just assume sociologists are stupid because that improves the r-squared of the economists’ world view.” (Via Brayden.)

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  • […] Nice little example of a blogging discussion spanning several blogs is Gordon Smith’ article on the conglomerate on this real important question: “Why do economists think sociologists are stupid?”. No wonder that the the discussion is anything but dispassionate. See reactions fueling the fire on orgtheory and organizations and markets. […]

  • 2. Knowledge Problem  |  10 August 2006 at 10:11 am

    A Roundup of Interesting Economics Links…

    Lynne Kiesling I have to embed myself in Deep Thought today on a paper for a conference in September, so will have to content myself with offering you these links for your consideration: Patri Friedman’s Catallarchy post “Pigouvian taxes are……

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