economics will forever be burdened with idiotic politics until people get it through their heads that ethics is SEPARATE. people like Thomas Sowell and Milton

economics will forever be burdened with idiotic politics until people get it through their heads that ethics is SEPARATE. people like Thomas Sowell and Milton Friedman seem eternally trying to hammer this point across to people in their essays and interviews. economics tells you that if you do A, B will happen. this is a value free statement. it could be cake or nazis. there are millions of permutations of the following idiocy: "B is efficient! therefore B is good!". libertarians are often equally as guilty of this as others I'm sad to say. I see this as another manifestation of trying to create a magic system that removes human judgment from the equation of governing human affairs. If we can just use X to judge things it will remove corruption! X can be: religious rules, mathematical models (the idea of 'utility' hides value judgments behind math), even an AI. In this case we simply have 'economic efficiency'. I'm sure there's more examples. we will never get anything done until we start seeing these types of things as engineering problems rather than moral ones.