This podcast is well worth a lesson for any and all of the following reasons:
1. A civil and critical discourse modeled by two social scientists.
2. A timely application of the economic way of thinking to important issues.
3. An examination of the role of ethics, values and morality in social science.
4. A discussion about the use and limitation of empiricism.
5. The types of knowledge - tacit v scientific
In a previous post I referenced Frank's book - The Economic Naturalist - esssentially a collection of student assignments from his introductory classes over the past 15+ years. For those of us who teach economics this is, to my way of thinking, an amazing activity to allow students to see the power of economic thinking.
Robert Frank on Inequality | EconTalk | Library of Economics and Liberty
Friday, November 26, 2010
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