Capitalism has been characterized by fundamental disagreement about how to understand economic systems, unlike fields with scientific consensus, with debates as stark as whether the sun goes around the earth or vice versa.
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Richard WolffEvidence Quote
“Economics has been what philosophers call an agonistic field. A place in which different ways of understanding the economy contest with one another, fight it out. Some win, some lose, and those losers sometimes come back and win later.”
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