It's weird how in the 18th and 19th century you had liberal political economists but today the only ones left are obscure Marxists. Instead the field is completely overrun by the pseudoscience of economics. Yet 200 years ago biologists were measuring skulls to explain why slavery is good. Now race science is almost completely marginalized. How has capitalist society on the one hand removed the fetters of ideology in some fields of science yet on the other hand allow ideology to make one field of science nearly useless???
Economics serves to maintain the bourgeois state and capitalism's place in the academy. It launders pro-capital policy as if were simply some kind of scientific truth and helps to justify and maintain a particular pro-capital economic equilibrium.
When the math and theory are relatively rigorous in economics, they are nearly always posed as a means of maintaining the pro-capital status quo. Metrics of worker power become markers of instability (for that status quo, this is true!), for example. The better their ideas are at keeping capital on top, the more likely they are to get traction.
It's weird how in the 18th and 19th century you had liberal political economists but today the only ones left are obscure Marxists. Instead the field is completely overrun by the pseudoscience of economics. Yet 200 years ago biologists were measuring skulls to explain why slavery is good. Now race science is almost completely marginalized. How has capitalist society on the one hand removed the fetters of ideology in some fields of science yet on the other hand allow ideology to make one field of science nearly useless???
Economics serves to maintain the bourgeois state and capitalism's place in the academy. It launders pro-capital policy as if were simply some kind of scientific truth and helps to justify and maintain a particular pro-capital economic equilibrium.
When the math and theory are relatively rigorous in economics, they are nearly always posed as a means of maintaining the pro-capital status quo. Metrics of worker power become markers of instability (for that status quo, this is true!), for example. The better their ideas are at keeping capital on top, the more likely they are to get traction.