Viner saw Simons’s polemical style as violating the academic ideal of objective analysis.

Evidence

To Viner, the role of the academic was to provide dispassionate and, to the extent possible, objective analysis divorced from po liti cal ideology or rhetorical devices. He believed that Simons’s work contravened these professional ideals, and he never altered this impression or perceived him as a peer or ally. — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, 113

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to later tensions between academically respectable economics and openly ideological free-market advocacy in the Mont Pèlerin milieu. — connects to: Postwar market advocates reread Simons and were shocked by his views — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 107; Henry Simons was the most politically engaged of the 1930s market economists. — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 136; Viner rejected Simons as an ally because he saw ideology as violating academic objectivity. — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 113

Broader Connections

• Henry Simons was the most politically engaged of the 1930s market economists. #complicates (0.72) — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, 136