The Frankfurt School’s interdisciplinary economics program went largely unproduced by its designated economists.

Evidence

This was a vision of genuine interdisciplinary collaboration, including economic and political analysis and concrete, material theory. So far as Pollock and Weil were concerned, it was to remain a vision. They had both shown that they were unsuited to tasks of this sort. Neither the essay on economics for Studies on Authority and the Family, nor an issue of the journal on economics for the 1937 anniversary of the publication of Marx’s Capital, nor any leading essays on economics for the ZfS, had been produced. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 338

Categorization

• DEFINE: Spells out what ‘genuine interdisciplinary collaboration’ meant in the Institute’s own terms — economic analysis plus material theory.
• XREF: Connects to the earlier thread on the Institute’s empirical turn to family research, and its persistent failure to integrate economics. — connects to: Frankfurt School’s interdisciplinarity failed to yield divergent analytic output — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 573; Early Frankfurt School members held separate roles; no coherent Critical Theory doctrine existed initially. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 537
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Frankfurt School’s interdisciplinarity failed to yield divergent analytic output — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 573; Early Frankfurt School members held separate roles; no coherent Critical Theory doctrine existed initially. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 537