• Reading notes from The Economy and the People, per p. 117

  • By the decline of church power

  • Worldview is a political weapon. - propaganda

  • Birth of Social Science

    • Political Ties

    • Schumpeter.Sociology of Intellectuals” in “Capitalism, Socialism, Democracy

    • Intellectuals are born of capitalist success.

    • When the church power was strong, there were disadvantages to expressing heretical opinions

    • capitalism, guarantee of personal freedom, free speech, freedom of the press

      • Birth of [mass media
      • The birth of a job supplying a world view to the masses through mass media
      • Germany in the first half of the 19th century, when Liszt was there, was in this state.
    • Incentives to criticize

    • Rising educational standards

      • Because it’s needed for large scale industry.
    • Raising educational standards goes from a means to an end.

      • Going too far results in highly educated unemployed.
      • Roussantism about not getting the treatment they deserve for their education.
      • erupt in the form of seemingly rational social criticism.
      • Groups of intellectuals become hostile to capitalist society.
    • Influencing politics as a secretary or advisor to politicians

  • scholastic dogma

    • Todd: “Pure economics often resembles this scholasticism because of its preference for axioms divorced from reality.”

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