Tuesday, January 19, 2016

David F. Ruccio — Damning with fervent praise

There’s certainly something wrong with heterodox economics these days if a leading mainstream economist such as DeLong, whose views on the current economic crises are by his own admission closely aligned with those of Larry Summers, finds that both the mainstream and URPE views “are in the same box.”
It’s a case, it seems to me, of damning with fervent praise.…
I don't see them as being in the same box. However, to the degree that heterodox economist frame their arguments as being the same box to be in the game, then they are likely to be viewed as being in that box.

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Damning with fervent praise
David F. Ruccio | Professor of Economics, University of Notre Dame

2 comments:

NeilW said...

There a lot of "that's what we think as well" lines coming from the mainstream. It's a common way of neutralising the opposition.

They'll refurbish the odd library and then get back to providing justification for creditors being made whole at every downturn.

Tom Hickey said...

Right. We call it "cooptation" around these parts.