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The problem is the level of debate in society in general, and in particular when it comes to political economy. The debate is basically non-existent. You don't
by agent008t 8y ago
The problem is the level of debate in society in general, and in particular when it comes to political economy. The debate is basically non-existent.
You don't get it in Congress/Senate/Parliament. You don't get it on the news channels. You sometimes - very rarely - still get it on the radio.
I want to see two people with opposing views debate a single issue for 2-3 hours, without being allowed to evade answering a question. Would happily pay a subscription fee to get that.
- pdonis 8y agoI agree the level of debate in our society is typically awful. However, in many cases, better debate won't fix the problem, because the problem in many cases is not that the "right" views aren't getting air time. The problem in many cases is that we can't even do controlled experiments in the domain, so our understanding is very limited and we simply don't know enough about the domain to give useful input to public policy decisions. For example, I think that's true of economics; nobody knows enough about economics to give useful input about most public policies.