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mahatmakanejeeves

(57,513 posts)
Mon Jul 7, 2014, 09:08 AM Jul 2014

Deconstructing David Brat’s ‘Scholarship’

This is a few weeks old.

Deconstructing David Brat’s ‘Scholarship’

Politics 06.12.14

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Perhaps rarely-read articles seem like soft targets for public scrutiny. But Brat’s teaching record is surely a good indication of how he would serve in Congress. As Alice Robb noted for The New Republic, Brat’s syllabus for “The Ends of Economic Justice” lists God as the author of the Bible. (I’ll wager God’s not receiving royalties.) Sales aren’t everything though. Sadly, like Plato and Aristotle, the omnipotent deity is merely suggested reading; the required textbook is by none other than Brat himself. Well, it is an economics class.


Also from Brat:

The Philosophy of Economics: A History of Science, Method and Ethics
http://faculty.rmc.edu/dbrat/researchpapers/2005BOOKPhilosophyofEconomics.pdf
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