DeLong om relativism

"The humanities departments still think relativism is sexy. They haven't yet figured out that to assume a position of relativism--like the claim to be neutral on issues of distribution--is really a statement that you are on the side of the powerful."

Brad Delong i Thrasymachus förklädnad, "A Non-Socratic Dialogue on the Social Welfare Function", 13 april

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