in the eyes of the modern economist, multiculturalism mischaracterizes the interests that give order to society. The cultural theorists think in collective terms: the interests of the powerful, the interests of capital, the interests of the cisgendered, the interests of white males, and so forth. But economists and multiculturalists both pursue disenchantment, which transforms truth into meaning—and then meaning into preferences, impulses, and urges, which today’s economists interpret in individualistic terms, unlike the proponents of multiculturalism. This difference is significant, but what
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