Quotation of the Day…
Posted By Don Boudreaux On October 7, 2012 @ 8:13 am In Economics,Hubris and humility,Scientism,State of Macro | Comments Disabled
… is from pages 479-480 of Vol. 12 - Economic Inquiry and Its Logic [1] (2000) – of The Collected Works of James M. Buchanan; specifically, it’s from Jim’s 1994 article “Economic Theory in the Postrevolutionary Moment of the 1990s”:
Social engineering became one of the several postmarginalist versions of mercantilist economic management. As also noted, the Depression inspired shift of attention to movement among economywide macroaggregates, a shift that Keynes and the Keynesians provided with quasi-scientific status, added powerful complementary force to economic management as the ultimate motive impulse for the formulation of economic theory itself.
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