The recent speech by Mark Carney , titled “ Principled and pragmatic: Canada’s path ,” is best read not as an idiosyncratic policy statement but as a representative document of an intellectual tradition that has reached its limits. The speech articulates, with clarity and restraint, the worldview of late neoliberal technocracy: economically literate, institutionally cautious, normatively earnest—yet historically thin and politically incomplete. In that sense, it deserves to b

In recent years, the proliferation of data-driven analysis has reshaped the epistemological foundations of economics. Vast computational capacity and algorithmic learning promise to turn uncertainty into calculable probability, and complexity into manageable prediction. Yet, the triumph of data often conceals a deeper conceptual poverty. As economics has increasingly become an empirical technocracy, it risks losing sight of what makes social inquiry meaningful: context, purpo