...Thus men become professors of, and combatants for those opinions they were never convinced of…no, nor ever had so much as floating in their heads.” (EHU. §4.20.18)
Kenny Pearce
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I read old books & am confused about God. Philosophy prof (currently James Madison University, formerly Trinity College Dublin). Latest book: bit.ly/2QrnJxl Latest paper: doi.org/10.1017/S0034412526101905
![= This is a risky strategy. In his 1953 Marshall Lectures, Talcott Parsons argued that the "basic categories of economic theory [...] can be derived from the frame of refer-ence, general concepts and variables of the general theory of special systems" and thus that "economic theory can be treated as a special case of the more general theory"_ that is, of Parsons' AGIL scheme of social action [Parsons 1991 : 22-23]. Keynes' General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money was "the kind of theory of the short-run equilibrium process of the economy that one would ask for on the hypothesis that the economy was a social system as I have outlined it" and so claimed "to have broadly substantiated the thesis that Keynes' General Theory is in fact a special case of the short-run equilibrium theory of social systems" [Parsons 1991, 33-7]. This claim was rather poorly received by his Cambridge audience:
"I was told that when Talcott made his statement a member of the audience shouted
'Shit!"' [Homans 1984: 328].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:myqic77tkmdhmaufgkvj43hr/bafkreihztlc5auau3mutzxc44ceab4jstyy23fiz7fnzmfl3xz52ek5g4e)
