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

Mitchell Langbert

Econ Journal Watch, 2016, vol. 13, issue 2, 224–228

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Business schools; employment relations; ideology; sociology of economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A11 A14 J5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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