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Re:Towards an Untrepreneurial Economy? Rise of the Veblenian... by WJW on Friday June 19, 2020 @02:09PM (#23577233)
Complaining about jargon in a publication for professionals is like complaining you don't know who this Torvalds guy is during a discussion on the linux kernel dev mailing list.

It's not like Veblen is an obscure figure nobody has heard of in the field of economics.

Re:Towards an Untrepreneurial Economy? Rise of the Veblenian... by vikramkr on Friday June 19, 2020 @02:13PM (#23577270)
The complaint is about the entire field. There's a reason pop psych is separate from "real" psych - if fields don't learn how to communicate to the population at large and just keep research within ivory towers, then you'll just end up with increasing disconnect with the rest of the world while the narrative is increasingly controlled by unqualified but charismatic "thought leaders." This is a publication for academics, but not for all professionals, since "professionals" include a lot of practitioners that never stepped foot in an econ class but are still immensely powerful int he entrepreneurial environment. There's an entire set of stakeholders left out.