On 2/23/2012 11:27 AM, jk wrote:
wrote:

Unlike you I actually attended college at Chico state and got to know
the faculty there in the political science dept. There were not any
economists. There was a branch that came to being in political science
that uses quantitative analysis in its approach to the subject but most
political scientists don't follow that methodology.

Yeah, a "science" that DOESN'T use any quantitative analysis. Sheesh!

Anyone with a name in poli sci does the quantitative analysis. Before
the economists taught the political scientists how to do it right, there
was no rigor in poli sci at all. It was nothing but subjective opinion.

The idea of "economics imperialism" - that is, economics invading other
social sciences because those other so-called "sciences" couldn't
explain anything coherently - has been around a long time. There's even
a Wikipedia entry on it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economi...28economics%29

The economists have always laughed about it. The older practitioners of
those other fields were pretty resentful when it first happened, but the
younger generation of political scientists and even some sociologists
simply accept it as part of the fields they learned; they never knew
anything different.


That is the same program that taught you to "evaluate" evidence isn't
it?

jk