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Published · transcript-backedJeffrey Sachs: belief
31 Mar 2015 Conversations with Tyler Jeffrey Sachs on Charter Cities and How to Reform Graduate Economics Education (Live at Mason)
“First of all, I think that anthropology in the form of getting a very deep, extra-thick description of a society is a very important kind of approach, one of many.”
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- 31 Mar 2015
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…They’re often critical of economists and development. You’re an economist. In a very broad sense, you’re representing the profession. A lot of anthropologists criticize what economists do at a pretty broad level. Are you persuaded by what they say, or not? First of all, I think that anthropology in the form of getting a very deep, extra-thick description of a society is a very important kind of approach, one of many. Second, we need an anthropology of economics in the original, literal sense of the word, which is a theory of man much better than we have. We have an 18th-century theory of humanity in a world of 20th-century evolutionary psychology, neuroscience, and a century of psychological understanding. We need a new anthropology in our field. The economy of Mexico, overrated or underrated?…
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