Kieran Healy, "A Wealth of Notions", Sociological Forum 22: 119–25 (p. 124)
17/01/2011
Also: Neuroscience
Economics has a bad habit of routinely rediscovering (and taking credit for) ideas that are well-established elsewhere. Sometimes, whole fields are victimized in this way—social networks, institutional analysis, and culture—as smart economists assume an idea that is new to them, is new to everyone, and go off and reinvent some wheels.
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