The Enemy Isn't Qualification

Dillen: I think littour is identifying this trend toward insisting on the objectivity of nature as one and the same. And you can analyze this whole scientific approach and say, look at all these political effects that it inevitably has, he says. But an actual economist will respond to that and say, yes, you're right. We need to make our economics more complex. The enemy is not economic thinking. The enemy isn't qualification but insistence that the natural world is distinct from the social world. It's that we're not doing it with sufficient subtlety to keep us from making mistakes.