Section C of An Anarchist FAQ makes a very similar point but with economics perpetuating capitalism instead of evolutionary psychology perpetuating patriarchy.
I don’t know much ‘real’ (as opposed to straw-) economics to tell to what extent what they say is accurate, but assuming they are not lying about what economics textbooks say, either economics as a discipline is seriously fucked up or their textbooks contain an absurd amount of lies-to-children. (I haven’t seen an undergraduate physics textbook describing the ‘dry water’ (zero viscosity, as von Neumann called it) model without also mentioning that it’s nearly useless as an approximation of the real behaviour of real fluids and giving an example of how preposterous its predictions are.)
Briefly checked it, and it looks like straw-economics to me. (I stopped reading at the point where they claimed that economists assume no barriers to entry.)
They quote economists frequently, though admittedly beyond the first instance of the phrase “barriers to entry” which is about five paragraphs into section C.1.
Section C of An Anarchist FAQ makes a very similar point but with economics perpetuating capitalism instead of evolutionary psychology perpetuating patriarchy.
I don’t know much ‘real’ (as opposed to straw-) economics to tell to what extent what they say is accurate, but assuming they are not lying about what economics textbooks say, either economics as a discipline is seriously fucked up or their textbooks contain an absurd amount of lies-to-children. (I haven’t seen an undergraduate physics textbook describing the ‘dry water’ (zero viscosity, as von Neumann called it) model without also mentioning that it’s nearly useless as an approximation of the real behaviour of real fluids and giving an example of how preposterous its predictions are.)
Briefly checked it, and it looks like straw-economics to me. (I stopped reading at the point where they claimed that economists assume no barriers to entry.)
They quote economists frequently, though admittedly beyond the first instance of the phrase “barriers to entry” which is about five paragraphs into section C.1.