Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, first published 50 years ago, is one of the few classics I tell students in pretty much all my classes they have to read before they leave college, whether or not it’s assigned in one of their courses. It contains important lessons, especially for economics, of radical paradigm shifts and the fundamental incommensurability among different theories and approaches.
David Weinberger retells one of the great stories about Kuhn that you can read at Brother, can youse paradigm? along with the story behind the pun titling the post.
Ruccio is an adjunct blogger too; don't forget to mention that
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