Apropå tidigare kommentarer om den ekonomiska vetenskapen: Yves Gingras, vetenskapshistoriker och vetenskapssociolog i Montréal, skriver på openDemocracy.net om det så kallade Nobelpriset i ekonomi. Han menar bland annat:
By its annual offer of a public image of ’hard science’ through its association with the Nobel prizes, the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences gives the discipline and its laureates the ’scientific’ aura it lacked to put forward authoritative but often simplistic theories about the economy (or, worse, the whole society) conceived as a big ’market’ where everything can be submitted to the so-called ’law of demand’ – be it a house, a wedding, or even an idea.
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