Culture and Commerce

If a university really wants to advance "intellectual diversity," a good first step would be to require its economics students to study some anthropology and its anthropology students to study some economics. Worst-case scenario: you'll expand some worldviews. Best-case scenario: you'll get more scholars like Grant McCracken.

[Via Virginia Postrel.]

Comments

[matt]

It’s amazing what taking one free-market oriented microeconomics class can accomplish. I wish more (any?) universities would require it.

[Jason Ligon]

NCDan’s experiences with anthropology match my own. Egad, let’s get the sociologists to study economics. Their heads might explode.

[NCDan]

Hmm..you say anthropologists don’t study economics. It seems I’ve read several marxist interpretations of culture in American Anthropologist over the years..although I’ll admit I haven’t cracked an issue of American Anthropologist in at least 5 years. Maybe they’re over it.