Review: Octavio Pimentel. Historias de Éxito within Mexican Communities: Silenced Voices, reviewed by Shane Teague
In much traditional discourse on success, there is an undercurrent of objectivism. Pseudo-empirical conceptions of economic success, which grant economics an undue status as an objective metric by which to measure cultural superiority, tell the comfortable, the wealthy, and the privileged that some cultures are just better by virtue of their production. This false objectivity…