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... appears to have been written by an economist. Is any other comment necessary?
by HillaryBriss 11y ago
... appears to have been written by an economist. Is any other comment necessary?
- cwyers 11y agoI am pretty sure it was written by vezzy-fnord, whose other postings on HN do not lead me to believe he's an economist.
- grayclhn 11y agoDefinitely not by an economist. Statements like > Economics is divided into many schools, in turn leaning neoclassical, heterodox or other are a pretty big tipoff because 1: non "heterodox" economists do not care enough about heterodox economics to mention it as a "school." 2: "heterodox" economists almost certainly don't think that "more formal math, like mainstream economics" is a good recommendation for any field. (I am an economist, don't agree with the article.)
- vezzy-fnord 11y agoI didn't refer to "heterodox" as a school, but rather a higher taxonomic rank. Nor did I ever make the case for formal math specifically. It is true I am not an economist.
- grayclhn 11y agoI just meant that an economist would have written differently in a lot of ways orthogonal to the point you were making. I didn't mean it as a value judgement (i.e. that an economist would have written it better), even though my post might have been read that way.