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The Reign Of Keynes, Part II — Lord Robert Skidelsky

The Joe Walker Podcast

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Are Generalists and Polymaths in Academic Distinctions?

Academics are so narrow theyn only about six other academics can understand what they are talking about. But er in economics, there are heterodox schools that challenge the main stream. Andiit goes on not telling us very much about the world we're living in, it will disappear. It'll one day be regarded as a kind of magic,. just like cult sciences vanished in the early modern period. So economics might go there, you know, unless it really takes, it takes itself in hand and becomes magical. We don't like magic. You know, we're not in an age when we want a to be magic. Weve improved on magic, or we've thought we

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