I would suggest that Rob Tye reread Feyerabend's Against Method (London, 1975). Anthony Waterman -----Original Message----- From: Rob Tye Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 9:57 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [SHOE] "Inside Job" and code of ethics for economists Setting the aim of replacing partisan narrative with knowledge is a tradition that runs all the way back to Herodotus and Thucydides. You mention Kuhn, but I am not aware of anything Kuhn said that would lead one to abandon that aim. Recalling now those sixties revolutionaries, I think it was rather Feyerabend who suggested that science benefits from political interference, and from dishonesty, and is on a par with myth. Would you wish to endorse that view? I find the ease with which inexcusable misrepresentations can be detected in writings concerning monetary history disquieting. It occurs to me to add Fernand Braudel to my earlier list of culprits here. Rob Tye York, UK personal web site: http://www.earlyworldcoins.com ------------------------------------------------------- From: Eric Schliesser <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:10:33 -0700 Subject: Re: "Inside Job" and code of ethics for economists All sciences engage in myth making when it comes to their own history--this has been well known since Kuhn and since amply documented. ES BOF Research Professor, Philosophy and Moral Sciences, Ghent University, Blandijnberg 2, Ghent, B-9000, Belgium. Phone: (31)-(0)6-15005958 Fall 2011: Visiting Associate Professor, UC, Santa Barbara http://www.newappsblog.com/ http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=649484 http://philpapers