Economists often complain that no one takes their advice, yet it is difficult to think of a field as riven by disagreement as the ‘dismal science.’ Adam Smith and Karl Marx may have shared the labor theory of value, but they promoted entirely different approaches to problems of production and consumption.
If you travel to economics departments, first---I hope you're okay, second---you'll find that many of them are located in brutalist buildings.
I used to think that perhaps this tendency was some grand nod to the shared values by both brutalist idealist schools and early contemporary economics of human rationality and cold calculation.
While I'm still very warm to this thought, I think to day it might have more to do simply with the overlap of Brutalism and the rise of contemporary economics.
Thank you! Brutalism never ceases to shock me. I live in Prague and the outskirts of the city are almost entirely composed of brutalist panel buildings that have been repainted in an attempt to make them less depressing. I think you could write a fun paper on the connection between economics and brutalism if you ever get the time.
Fascinating writeup!
If you travel to economics departments, first---I hope you're okay, second---you'll find that many of them are located in brutalist buildings.
I used to think that perhaps this tendency was some grand nod to the shared values by both brutalist idealist schools and early contemporary economics of human rationality and cold calculation.
While I'm still very warm to this thought, I think to day it might have more to do simply with the overlap of Brutalism and the rise of contemporary economics.
Thank you! Brutalism never ceases to shock me. I live in Prague and the outskirts of the city are almost entirely composed of brutalist panel buildings that have been repainted in an attempt to make them less depressing. I think you could write a fun paper on the connection between economics and brutalism if you ever get the time.