TY - JOUR
AU - Piore, Michael J.
AB - Socio-Economic Review (2009) 7, 161–175 doi:10.1093/ser/mwn023 Advance Access publication November 5, 2008 PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS SASE Annual Meeting 2008, San Jose, Costa Rica Second thoughts: on economics, sociology, neoliberalism, Polanyi’s double movement and intellectual vacuums Michael J. Piore Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA Correspondence: mpiore@mit.edu Keywords: socio-economics, economics, sociology, neoliberalism, Polanyi JEL classification: A12 relation of economics to other disciplines I want to discuss this afternoon the relationship between sociology and eco- nomics, and the role this relationship plays—or could play—at the current political juncture as we move away from the dominance of neoliberalism and the Washington Consensus in the formulation of public policy. To do so, however, I have to abjure two positions which I had taken in this organiz- ation in the past. I was first invited to SASE by Axel van den Berg in 1999 as the lone economist on a panel discussing the relationship between economics and sociology. I argued there that the debate the panel set up between eco- nomics and sociology was misplaced; that sociologists should stick to their last, forget their preoccupation with economics and do their own thing. If they did it well, they would inevitably provide the alternatives to 
TI - SASE Annual Meeting 2008, San Jos, Costa Rica
JO - Socio-Economic Review
DO - 10.1093/ser/mwn023
DA - 2009-01-05
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/sase-annual-meeting-2008-san-jos-costa-rica-CZK7isBCP9
SP - 161
EP - 175
VL - 7
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
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