
S2E3: Interview with Beatrice Cherrier, International Treasure, Historian of Economic Thought
The Mixtape with Scott
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The Importance of Values in Economics
I actually studied his different phase. And try to understand so on time what he does basically. In the first period of his life is actually very much of a positive is even wrote a book called the political element in the development of economics. Then he shifted in the 30s and 40s while writing American dilemma to a completely different epistemology saying, okay, there. Working with values is basically unavoidable. What you can avoid is smuggling your own values as a researcher into the analysis. So it's a strong shift in how to handle values in economic analysis. It's almost like a detokeful kind of effort. Alexis detokeful like just come into the United States and write from
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