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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoThe Anti-Revolutionary Science - Public Books2024-03-24T21:04:28+00:00
https://www.publicbooks.org/the-anti-revolutionary-science/
robertogrecoEven when findings are empirical rather than theoretical, economists can give them more credence than they warrant. People tend to see figures as “hard” outputs: objective, reliable, repeatable, verifiable. But a good deal of economic data, such as unemployment, inflation, and GDP growth, are statistical approximations, rather than “hard” data points.2
Even if Nasar were able to acknowledge that “the facts” she prizes are actually more like statistical approximations, she would still be facing a deeper problem, which is that, in the period immediately after her story ends, economics goes down a rabbit hole in which statistics begin to be significant simply because they are statistics. This problem is characterized with typically merciless wit by the gadfly economist Deirdre McCloskey in her 2002 manifesto, The Secret Sins of Economics:
It is also completely obvious that a “statistically significant” result can be insignificant for any human purpose. When you are trying to explain the rise and fall of the stock market it may be that the fit (so-called: it means how closely the data line up) is very “tight” for some crazy variable, say skirt lengths (for a long while the correlation was actually quite good). But it doesn’t matter: the variable is obviously crazy. Who cares how closely it fits? For a long time in Britain the number of ham radio operator licenses granted annually was very highly correlated with the number of people certified insane.3
Even McCloskey, though, will not take the next step and acknowledge that it’s not only the more fanciful ideas in economics, but also the central ones, that face this problem. Take, for instance, the idea of “wealth,” which Nasar’s economists universally equate with the ability to purchase commodities, especially luxury goods. For support in making this reductive equation, Nasar approvingly cites the conservative economist Joseph Schumpeter, who wrote in his 1942 masterwork Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy that “Queen Elizabeth owned silk stockings. The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stockings for queens but in bringing them within reach of factory girls.” It takes a more than a little habituation to “economic” thinking to realize that this statement conveys the essence of the profession’s idea of “wealth.”
But drawing stockings over the weary legs of a factory girl will no more make her “wealthy” than a thin scrim of romantic subplots and coming-of-age tropes will make the story of modern economics into a romance of the scientific intellect, and Nasar cannot see this. She is unable to acknowledge that economics, far from being an adventure in pure thought or a disinterested “science,” is in fact “scientific” only in the highly specific sense that it is the science of capitalism—or, more accurately, the science of defending capitalism. Through the back door, Nasar admits this thought into her story: the preface describes economics as the search for “a way to improve the lot of the poor without overturning existing society”; and in a description that applies to the vast majority of economists, she notes that Keynes “regarded instability, not inequality, as the great threat to capitalism.” Others are more direct about the managerial function of the field. Robert Heilbroner, whose 1953 book, The Worldly Philosophers, remains one of the most influential histories of economics ever published, wrote in 1995 that “[the] inextricable entanglement of economics with capitalism appears to be the best guarded secret of the profession. Indeed, one suspects that the secret is not even known to all economists.”4 He adds that “the very meaning of ‘economic’ would be unintelligible outside capitalism.”5
This entanglement is lost on Nasar, who writes as though it were economic ideas rather than capitalism transforming the world. Observers cannier than I have noticed this trouble with the book: in his review for The Wall Street Journal, James Grant writes that “economists no more set the world to producing and consuming than baseball statisticians hit home runs.”6 The real geniuses, he suggests, are successful capitalists.
And this is the crux of the problem with Grand Pursuit: the big idea lurking behind “economic genius” is the defense of capitalism, but, brought out in the open, the defense of capitalism tends to sounds heartless. Its sunny side lies in the Marshallian gospel of good times: as long as the wheels are spinning, we can all get wealthier, even if some of us get wealthier than others. Its dark side, which readers can depend on Schumpeter to provide, is that the bad times, when the poor suffer the most, are just the way of the world. Nasar quotes him with sympathy: “Like it or not, [Schumpeter] liked to say, ‘the pattern of boom and bust is the form economic development takes in the era of capitalism.’ ”
That’s an interesting phrase, “the era of capitalism”; it implies it might end. For Schumpeter, nervously gauging the possibility of a socialist East in the 1930s, this was a real concern. For us in 2012, it sounds disingenuous, as though capitalism were just something we’re all trying out while we weigh its pros and cons. But the window for such debates has long since closed, and even if it hadn’t, economics would not be the field to pursue the question of alternatives to capital. It cannot imagine society organized differently than today. No wonder it proved so difficult to write the history of the profession as a romance of the intellect: the paradise of economic theory is simply 2012 with more silk stockings.
In 2006, the economic journalist David Warsh published an enthusiastic history of the field called Knowledge and The Wealth of Nations in which he had the misfortune to focus his zeal precisely on the rise of the mathematics that would come to signify the profession’s complicity in the crash of 2008, a problem Nasar knew well to avoid. But the two books’ admiring portraits share a strong resemblance. For Warsh, until the 1980s and the beginning of the PC revolution, economics really had been the science of scarcity. But, in his story, the rise of the era of the personal computer made economists realize that the source of wealth isn’t stored up in our diminishing natural resources—but in our boundless creativity. In terms very much like the Marshallian ones on which Nasar depends, Warsh’s book tells the story of the rise of what economists have taught us to call “human capital”: the idea that the origin of value (which is seen to have an origin) lies not in material goods per se but in our capacity to recognize the infinite wealth-creating potential in technology. Warsh assigns a much later date to this discovery of abundance—it’s the PC, rather than the railroad or the automobile, that finally rescues us from scarcity—but the storyline is the same.
There is an illuminating difference between Warsh’s book and Nasar’s, though, and it lies in Warsh’s frank account of how the profession policed itself along the road to its math-driven adulthood. Throughout his book, he notes that the worst dismissal that a postwar economist’s work could suffer was that it was “literary.” He describes economists using the word as a cudgel with each other; he uses it himself. For Warsh and his protagonists, the problem with literariness lies in its un-mathematical, and therefore un-scientific nature. But since there is no shortage of commentary among recent economic writers who are willing to say in public that math does not a science make (see, for instance, sympathetic books by Robert Nelson and Jonathan Schlefer), one wonders whether the real force of the epithet is that “literary” work fails to acknowledge the hard truth behind the prosperity-messaging: the truth, à la Schumpeter, that capitalism is not an optional experiment in living, but a compulsory experience of turmoil.
The word “literary” is particularly revealing in this context because, futile though her attempt may be to make a romantic narrative out of the history of economics, Nasar may have been on to something when she tried. She may have sensed, more thoughtfully than Warsh, that there’s something in economic anti-literariness, and in its pretensions to “science,” that calls out for remedy. But she misunderstands the problem, which is not that economics may once have had a literary soul. The problem is that there’s no resolving the conflict between capitalism and what I hope you won’t mind my calling poetry—if by “poetry” I may be permitted to mean the ability to imagine the world otherwise.
For Nasar, touchingly, economics is “scientific” not because it’s rigorous, but because it’s a product of the Enlightenment: she wants very badly to be able to tell the story of economic thinking as a tale of technical progress, in which economists drive poverty from the earth like medical scientists drove away polio. Certainly, liberal economists would like to think of their profession this way, as a prophecy of plenty; they have chafed at the epithet “the dismal science” since Thomas Carlyle first deployed it against the field’s pro-slavery arguments in 1849.
Carlyle’s coinage was, of course, a clever inversion of the idea of a “gay science”—first known to us in Provençal as gai saber, the art of writing poetry, and later, via Nietzsche, as the wisdom of a “science” that revels in not needing to defend itself by claiming to be one. But nobody who’s paying attention to economic theory could mistake it for a science. Unfortunately for economics, it isn’t poetry either. And as the art of apology for the world as it is, it never will be."]]>2012 christophernealon occupywallstreet ows jeffreysachs economics capitalism liberalism neoliberalism socktherapy greatdepression greatrecession globalfinancialcrisis irvingfisher stability science academia academics highereducation highered nassimtaleb burtonmalkiel 1973 2007 finance business 2008 genius sylvianassar johnmaynardkeynes class history humanity abundance theory davidricardo thomasmalthus karlmarx marshallplan economists alfredmarshall gdp 1929 deirdremccloskey socialsciences socialscience inequality robertheilbroner josephschrumpeter socialism democracy jamesgrant managerialism davidwarsh scarcity robertnelson jonathanschlefer nietzschehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d0b042f3cec6/Philosophize This!: Episode #189 ... Everything that connects us is slowly disappearing. - Byung Chul Han pt. 2 on Apple Podcasts2024-03-14T19:46:25+00:00
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https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/09/21/defending-allende-ariel-dorfman/
robertogrecoIt would be better for Chile if Allende and Pinochet become purely historical figures, rather than sources of political inspiration, allowing the country to look forward. Clearly that is still hard. Allende’s government was a colossal political failure. But what “we can try to agree on,” as Mr Fernández, the journalist who was originally involved in the 50th-anniversary celebrations, put it, “is that what happened after the coup was unacceptable”.
https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2023/08/31/chile-is-still-haunted-by-the-coup-in-september-1973
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https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/08/west-virginia-university-cuts-programs.html
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https://www.thenation.com/article/society/wvu-cuts-higher-education/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6MLtFeZcak
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuseHXkMjmM
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https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/care-not-control
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https://www.publicbooks.org/neoliberal-keywords-creative-passionate-confident/
robertogrecoEverything Is Fine: A Toolkit for Surviving and Thriving in Grad School …
Register for our Empowered Educator Online Conference … Leverage technology to increase students’ digital literacy and career readiness …
The most important thing you will do in this role (and maybe your entire career!) is be a part of building the future of education for your area of domain expertise. You will design a program to teach traditional school subjects but in a non-traditional way. If you are a passionate subject matter expert who believes that technology—not teachers—is the key to unlocking students’ full learning potential, then this job is for you.
There is something so banal, even embarrassing, in the aggressive positivity and predictable cant of these emails. Such exhortations have become ubiquitous on the corporatized university campus, where a diverse cast of players—administrators, student clubs, brand ambassadors, Christian ministries, military recruiters, corporate employers, fitness organizations, test prep companies—coalesce around a shared set of keywords. But when did we all become so empowered, passionate, and self-enterprising? And how did having those qualities get to be so important?
Three new books address those questions, each dismantling a core myth of neoliberal discourse. In The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History, Samuel W. Franklin uncovers the contemporary premium placed on “creativity” as a product of postwar US anxiety. Passionate Work: Endurance After the Good Life, by Renyi Hong, critiques the contemporary idea of “passion” for one’s work as an affective tool for managing the disappointments, alienation, and injustices of labor under late capitalism. And in Confidence Culture, Shani Orgad and Rosalind Gill contend that the contemporary discourse of self-empowerment directed at women—both a “culture” and a “cult”—represents a neoliberal strand of feminism that makes the individual responsible for improving her own circumstances rather than addressing systemic and institutional injustices.
Together, these books provide historical context for some of neoliberalism’s most persistent idioms: grit, resilience, initiative, innovation, positive mindset, and self-improvement. The books also remind us of the stakes of language in all this. When we continue to rely on such keywords, we obscure the structural reality—and political urgency—of issues like worker precarity and widening economic inequality. Our linguistic repetition reinforces the unquestioned “truth” of the words themselves, and we thus naturalize political problems as personal ones."]]>language highered highereducation education 2023 creativity labor positivity neoliberalism precarity work grit resilience initiative innovation positivemindset mindset self-improvement ianarobitaille samuelfranklin renyihong shaniorgad rosalindgill anxiety capitalism copropratization universities colleges administration management keywords discourse rhetoric passion confidence culture disappointment alienation injustice latecapitalism rossalindgill self-empowerment women gender cults feminism individualism systems systemicinjustice institutions growth growthmindset structures reality politics urgency inequality linguistics truth ubiquity business psychology academia policy collusion industry ideology workplace us coldwar joypaulguilford calvintaylor economics lifestyle labororganizing eugenics aesthetics equity williamshockley davidogilvy belllabs entrepreneurialism progress class classdistinction technology autonomy fulfillment leisure workculture exploitation emotionalfulfillment cynicism uncertainty deprihttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4db7ecbee9dd/BART and the Killing of Oscar Grant - American Leftist2023-06-13T16:33:11+00:00
http://amleft.blogspot.com/2010/07/bart-oscar-grant-and-johannes-mehserle.html
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https://creativegood.com/blog/22/why-we-cant-trust-apple.html
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https://thedigradio.com/podcast/empires-workshop-with-greg-grandin/
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https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/the-one-best-way
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https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/will-ai-become-the-new-mckinsey
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https://thesociologicalreview.org/podcasts/spatial-delight/
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https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/economist-writers-last-true-believers-in-neoliberalism-by-j-bradford-delong-2023-04
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https://millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/debunking-norwegian-prison-reform-as-propaganda-with-oakland-abolition-and-solidarity
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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/06/the-end-of-the-english-major
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/28/uk-ministers-consultants-whitehall
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-NV5hoaPJQ
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https://techwontsave.us/episode/155_the_untold_history_of_silicon_valley_w_malcolm_harris
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https://thedigradio.com/podcast/higher-ed-crisis-w-dennis-hogan/
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https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-your-enemy-the-right-kind-of-worker-with-gabriel-winant
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https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-your-enemy-on-barbara-ehrenreich
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGAAf_K8J4Q
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKwxKR5-QKU
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MfuGSlDRsc
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywdma9ofUzc
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81cLuGAwM9Y
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https://www.versobooks.com/books/3989-the-future-is-degrowth
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https://srslywrong.com/podcast/270-the-future-is-degrowth-w-aaron-vansintjan/
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