Kevin Hoover:
"The reason that methodology cannot succeed in reforming the practice of economists not only that it does not, indeed, cannot occupy a privileged position, but also that it does not belong to the same interpretative community as the economists whose practices it hopes to reform. General equilibrium theory cannot be successfully criticized from the perspective of an 'epistemological theory of probabilistic knowledge,' and neoclassical economics cannot be successfully criticized from a Hegelian historiographic tradition. Both critical perspectives are 'outside' economics, and therefore do not participate in the same interpretive communities as their objects of criticism. Methodology is impossible and therefore cannot matter." (291)
See?? Joanne Yiokaris can't criticize Daniel Brou's dissertation because her critical perspective in English literature is outside economics and is outside the economics interpretive community. It's two scholars speaking different languages at one another.
"The reason that methodology cannot succeed in reforming the practice of economists not only that it does not, indeed, cannot occupy a privileged position, but also that it does not belong to the same interpretative community as the economists whose practices it hopes to reform. General equilibrium theory cannot be successfully criticized from the perspective of an 'epistemological theory of probabilistic knowledge,' and neoclassical economics cannot be successfully criticized from a Hegelian historiographic tradition. Both critical perspectives are 'outside' economics, and therefore do not participate in the same interpretive communities as their objects of criticism. Methodology is impossible and therefore cannot matter." (291)
See?? Joanne Yiokaris can't criticize Daniel Brou's dissertation because her critical perspective in English literature is outside economics and is outside the economics interpretive community. It's two scholars speaking different languages at one another.