Computers and elite economists both claimed to produce knowledge beyond politics.
Evidence
While it might seem superficially odd to pair the computer and the silver-haired European intellectual, they shared the claim of producing knowledge in a space ostensibly beyond politics. — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 539
Categorization
- SEED: An essay angle: how machinery and professorial prestige converge as twin symbols of ‘neutral’ expertise in mid-century economics.
- XREF: connects to: Economists’ claim to transcendent knowledge collapses when they enter governance — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 1597
Broader Connections
- Economists’ claim to transcendent knowledge collapses when they enter governance
#complicates(0.85) — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 1597