Marginalism and Economism

Hmm, I guess I’m an economist :-). See Marginalism (quoted below) and In slight praise of mediocrity.

Marginalism also leads one to question the old maxim that anything worth doing at all is worth doing well. Nobel Laureate James Buchanan has suggested that an economist can be distinguished from a non-economist by his reaction to that statement.

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