Speak Well Of The Bourgeois, And Prosper

Tuesday, August 19, 2014 - 19:40 in Physics & Chemistry

By Jason Potts, RMIT UniversityDo the words we use to speak of economic matters, matter? I believe they do, but not by the propagation of textbookish jargon. Rather, the main way they matter is in shaping public ethics.Economics has been a technical field of studies for a few centuries now and is replete with textbooks full of ideas expressed in precise and often mathematical language, passed down through a priestly class of scholars. read more

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