Honest Political Economic Dialogue.
There is a chapter in a book, the Street Porter and the Philosopher that has a dialogue between my academic god-father Warren Samuels and the nobel-prize winning founder of public choice theory James Buchanan. It describes how valuable it was to dialogue and Warren tells his story of how he managed to avoid isms in the 50s and how that affected his career as a very productive scholar in the history of economic thought and the economic role of government.
Its a great testimony to how one's work reflects one's roots and the deeper questions in life. Once upon a time, I decided to write a theology paper back when I was a PhD student in Economics that would show Warren that his worldview wasn't incompatible with Evangelical Christianity. In the process, my own understanding of my faith changed. I became a pluralist, but not a relativist, and have come to see us as still trying to get over the 30 years war and its polemical aftermath, where we value our boxes more than our ability to form relationships with others with somewhat different boxes and a miracle happens and both sides are open to reconsidering aspects of their boxes.
dlw
Its a great testimony to how one's work reflects one's roots and the deeper questions in life. Once upon a time, I decided to write a theology paper back when I was a PhD student in Economics that would show Warren that his worldview wasn't incompatible with Evangelical Christianity. In the process, my own understanding of my faith changed. I became a pluralist, but not a relativist, and have come to see us as still trying to get over the 30 years war and its polemical aftermath, where we value our boxes more than our ability to form relationships with others with somewhat different boxes and a miracle happens and both sides are open to reconsidering aspects of their boxes.
dlw
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