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Ideologically based convictions insure that all and any evidence, no matter how clearly and persuasively presented, only serves to buttress previously entrenched economic positions. Consequently, empirical research for such determined advocates like George Stigler and Gardiner Means become more of a convenient rhetorical weapon than the basis for determining answers to posed problems. Supposed evidence in such cases comes to serve more as a means to re-inforce and solidify pre-existing, though diametrically opposite, visions of how the world properly operates. Given such pre-established perspective, identical observations cease to clarify or resolve conflicts or controversies given the associated pre-judgments involved. In this conversation with Jim Kindahl, Stigler’s co-author (The Behavior of Industrial Price—1970), readers are enabled to go behind the curtain that often cloaks the animating mechanisms of published work. Such exchanges manage to explore how the sausage of economic research is at times heavily spiced with impregnable ideological beliefs.
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Freedman, C. (2020). What Price Glory: James Kindahl Airs Some Views on George Stigler. In: Freedman, C. (eds) George Stigler. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56815-1_7
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