Failures of economics : diagnostic study
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A methodologist's lot is not a happy one. He is obliged by the requirements of his calling to carp, to criticize, to find fault, to disparage, and to throw cold water and such activi ties do not often make for idyllic professional relationships with the other people concerned. It is often felt, and with consider able justification, that criticism is cheap and easy, that it is much more worth while to "lend a hand" in the ever continuing attempt to do better, and that any really competent man would want to be on the academic firing-line rather than spend his time and effort in "superintending" from the sidelines. The un happy lot of the methodologist derives, therefore, from the circumstance that he often antagonizes the very people whom he respects and admires the most; and that he often wins the prov of least some people for whose approval he does not care. And this somewhat melancholy situation is even aggra vated by the fact that the methodologist will usually "pick" on the most creative and the most productive scholars in his field - since their work is the most important, it is also the most "worthy" of methodological analysis. There is a distinct ele ment of intellectual patricide in methodological work, and this aspect of it does not help to win it social approval.
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