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Omar
Tyler Cowen’s love affair with orgtheory bloggers continues. His latest NY Times column draws on a paper (still a very early working draft; comments and suggestions welcome!) that came out of my dissertation research (here’s a marginal revolution post about that too). I drew on some of Tyler’s own work in my dissertation. I was turned on to Tyler’s research thanks to Kieran, which as some of you know was a member of my dissertation committee (what a tangled textual web we weave).
Great exposure Omar. You’re already being cited in the NY Times as an assistant professor. Next thing you know you’ll be writing op-eds.
brayden
February 22, 2007 at 4:34 pm
Congratulations!! I do declare orgtheory.net to be the coolest soc/orgs blog around!!
Fabio Rojas
February 22, 2007 at 5:03 pm
Fabio,
As you well know, Austinian performatives carry no weight unless accompanied by some sort of ritual enactment. So maybe we can get together at a bar in NY and break a bottle of wine on a computer monitor as we declare orgtheory.net the coolest soc/orgs blog ever.
And Brayden, precisely precisely because I just used the term “Austinian performative” means that I will never, ever, be invited to write an op ed piece.
Omar
February 22, 2007 at 5:42 pm
Omar, if nothing else, you are probably Tyler’s favorite “dominican/sociologist blogger.”
Fabio Rojas
February 22, 2007 at 6:44 pm
Hey, that’s great, Omar. Between you and Tyler and then me and Virginia Postrel, sociologists are being borne to media visibility via the writings of libertarians. Interesting.
Kieran
February 22, 2007 at 8:51 pm
Yeah. We might call it “private sociology.” Hello? Is this thing on?
Omar
February 22, 2007 at 8:59 pm
Kieran said: “sociologists are being borne to media visibility via the writings of libertarians. Interesting.”
Fabio sez: structural holes. Tyler and Virginia are polymaths and are just bridging the hole that exists between the libt’n econ crowd and the org/soc crowd.
Another interesting observation is that most libt’ns ignore sociological work because they view it as either fuzzy or anti-capitalist, an image many sociologists cultivate. So the structural holes we helped create are now being exploited by others like Tyler and Postrel. Go figure!
Fabio Rojas
February 22, 2007 at 9:07 pm
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