Journal of Economic Issues, December 1st, 2004
Science uses its technical names efficiently. Such names serve to mark off certain portions of the scientific subjectmatter as provisionally acceptable, thereby freeing the worker's attention for closer consideration of other portions that remain problematic.
--John Dewey, Knowing and the Known
The recent exchange between James Webb and Thomas DeGregori (2002 and 2003) demonstrates the degree to which dissident economists are unable to use their technical names efficiently. They debate definitions of and relations among science, technology, and common sense. They debate continuity, discont...
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