Science versus Europeans
I loved the, er, fair and balanced tone of this article (via Marginal Revolution): Obsolete and disproved Marxist and socialist thinking also remained strong within European universities, including in economics departments. Many young economists, scientifically oriented and so recognizing the superiority of free markets , found the climate intellectually stultifying [my emphasis] What fun. While the article makes a valid overall point - the centre of gravity of the economics profession really is in the US, and there has been lots of old-fashioned thinking in some European universities - it's subtly undermined by the kind of assertion in bold text above. I wanted to find out more about who was writing this stuff - after all it has the implied approval of Tyler Cowen - so I clicked on ' About City Journal ' in the footer of the article. City Journal is the nation’s premier urban-policy magazine, “the Bible of the new urbanism,” as London’s Daily Telegraph puts i...