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Dr. Sowell Intellectuals and Society

Do you largely agree with Dr. Sowell

  • Libs: Yes, I agree

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  • Libs: No, I don't agree

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  • Repubicans: No, I don't agree

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Progressives/Moderates:Yes, I agree

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  • Progressives/Moderates: No, I don't agree

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  • Total voters
    5
  • Poll closed .
He uses Chomsky as an example. A linguist (which is a social science) who is talking about politics and sociology (which are also social sciences) as though he's an expert in these fields when he's really just an expert linguist. Sowell apparently denounces Chomsky for this.

Let's look at it thoroughly, though.

Sowell is an economist (which is a social science) who is talking about politics and sociology (which are also social sciences) as though he's an expert in these fields when he's really just an expert economist. But apparently it's OK for Sowell to do this in Sowell's way of thinking.

Regardless of whether or not people agree with Sowell, it's obviously hypocritical of him to take such a stance or to even write such a book.

The book is about intellectuals forcing public policy when they shouldn't. The effects of public policy are largely within the realm of an economist
 
The book is about intellectuals forcing public policy when they shouldn't. The effects of public policy are largely within the realm of an economist

Only economic policy is within the realm of an economist. He's not limiting his argument to economic policies i.e. policies within his realm.
 
The book is about intellectuals forcing public policy when they shouldn't. The effects of public policy are largely within the realm of an economist

Economics is largely a made up subject. The actual systems are well entangled and complicated. There's a reason why mathematicians and physicists make the "best" economists.
 
Yes. He is an intellectual, but not cut from the Socialist cloth, like the masses of them infesting our halls of acedemia like roaches in a bad restaurant. Sowell actually admires America. Treasures her. Sees greatness in her. THAT is an enormous difference to the mass of his colleagues.
So he's a GOOD intellectual because he aligns himself with the correct set of prejudices. Glad to see you understand the nature of the term "intellectual" so well.
 
I noticed, for one thing, that he didn't cite a single person like "Dr." Savage or "Dr." Laura, conservative talk hosts who use a title they earned in entirely unrelated work to appear more expert than the listener on the subjects they address.

So what is your argument? That people who worked hard for their Ph.D.s should only use the title "Dr." when working in their respective field? If that's your argument. Sorry, but it is inane. :)

An anti-intellectual intellectual? That'd be a silly, self-hating philosophy. Like Black conservatism. Reconciling labor and capital eh, doc? Good luck with that one.

The people who hate themselves are black people that adhere to liberalism. How black people can routinely and unthinkingly vote for the Democrat Party (the party of the KKK and Bull Connor etc...) is beyond me.
 
Economics is how people will respond to certain incentives. It's not just inflation, monetary policy ect. While not exactly sociology, there is a significant overlap
 
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