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The Secret Sins of Economics

Deirdre N. McCloskey

出版	Prickly Paradigm Press, 2002
ISBN	09717575349780971757530
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=pFC5AAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Whats̕ sinful about economics is not what the averageanthropologist or historian or journalist thinks. From the outside the dismal science seems obviously sinful, ifirritatingly influential. But the obvious sins are not allthat terrible; or, if terrible, they are committed anywayby everybody else. It is actually two particular, nonobvious, and unusual sins, two secret ones, that cripple the scientific enterprise -in economics and in a fewother fields nowadays (like psychology and political science and medical science and population biology). Yet a sympathetic critic who says these things and wishes that her own beloved economics would grow upand start focusing all its energies on doing properscience (the way physics or geology or anthropology orhistory or certain parts of literary criticism do it) finds herself sadly misunderstood. The commonplace andvenial sins block scrutiny of the bizarre and mortalones. Pity the poor sympathetic critic, construed regularlyto be making this or that Idiots̕ Critique: "Oh, I see. Your̕e one of those airy humanists who just can't stand to think of numbers or mathematics." Or, "Oh, I see. When you say economics is "rhetorical" you want economists to write more warmly."