Brad DeLong gives his view of Sahlin here. A short quote
Sahlins's claims that it was "the market-industrial system [which] institutes scarcity"... seemed to indicate a total, willful, and culpable ignorance of practically all of the non-market settled agricultural societies of the past ten thousand years.There is more on this issue from DeLong here.
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What can I say - anthropologists, can't live with them, can't shoot them :)
I think a number of social scientists confuse the economic method and economists with the policies that were implemented by politicians or dictators on the basis of "economics". Just look at Naomi Klein.
I don't mean to sound so insulting about these other social sciences, but given that they constantly attack economics and economists without even a rudimentary knowledge of what economics is I feel that I'm allowed to give a little uneducated stick back ;)
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