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Libertarian Follies |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / A LIBERTARIAN-COMMUNITARIAN FACE-OFF |
| Author: Amitai Etzioni |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 5/1/1995 |
| Size: 4,097 Words, 28,365 Characters |
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In The Moral Dimension I argued that there are now two main languages in which the social sciences are developed: the neoclassical and the nameless "other." The first, best known through neoclassical economics, assumes that the center of the social universe is the individual; that individuals pursue only one supergoal to which all other values can be reduced, namely pleasure; and that individuals pursue this goal rationally, by applying empirical-logical evidence and reasoning. In short, in the neoclassical view, people are akin to two-legged computers. These assumptions now guide about a third of the work done by legal scholars, sociologists, political scientists, and many others. Adam Smith, widely considered the grandfather of neoclassical economics, was also the first to show that it d...
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...as two consumer goods (David R. Kamerschen and Lloyd M. Valentine, Intermediate Microeconomic Theory, 2nd ed. Cincinnati: Southwestern, 1981, p. 82), while Walsh (Vivian Charles Walsh, Introduction to Contemporary Microeconomics, New York: McGraw Hill, 1970, p. 24) treats as interchangeable relations to a bottle of booze (Jack Daniels) and to a person (Marina) (The Moral Dimension, p. 249). vbcrlf
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