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Fruit Salad All the Way Down: Response to Kaufman on Industrial Relations

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Bruce Kaufman’s response to my piece “The Left Orientation of Industrial Relations” is kindly and colorful, but it riffs quite wide of my purpose. Contrary to the impression Kaufman gives, I was not trying to explain the causes of defective thinking in the field of industrial relations; I was not positing a “Truth Gap,” as he calls it, much less trying to explain its sources. I candidly expressed my view that politically left thinking is defective, and then documented its great preponderance in the field. Contrary to Kaufman, I see that social science always includes judgments about what is important and about formulations and understandings; such judgments naturally mix with ideology but they cannot be separated from science, especially the social sciences.

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  • Mitchell Langbert, 2016. "Fruit Salad All the Way Down: Response to Kaufman on Industrial Relations," Econ Journal Watch, Econ Journal Watch, vol. 13(2), pages 224–228-2, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:ejw:journl:v:13:y:2016:i:2:p:224-228
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    1. Bruce E. Kaufman, 2016. "Langbert on Left-Leaning Industrial Relations: Bringing Balance to a Right-Leaning Account," Econ Journal Watch, Econ Journal Watch, vol. 13(2), pages 200–223-2, May.
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      Business schools; employment relations; ideology; sociology of economics;
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      • A11 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Role of Economics; Role of Economists
      • A14 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Sociology of Economics
      • J5 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining

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