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Like most articles referring to economists as a group, now admitting whatever you, dear wise reader, have always known, this one does not contain any kind of su
by amadeuspagel 7y ago
Like most articles referring to economists as a group, now admitting whatever you, dear wise reader, have always known, this one does not contain any kind of survey, but simply quotes a few economists, as if they spoke for the entire economics profession.
- joshdick 7y agoWhen some of the economists mentioned are the president of the International Economic Association, a a chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, and a Nobel Prize winner who also happens to be the economics columnist for one of the largest U.S. newspapers -- I think it's fair to say that these are representative of mainstream economic thought.
- wallace_f 7y agoEconomics always has been and still is very dogmatic, subservient to authority and hostile to "crackpots," dissent. That is until an honorable, respectable man like John Maynard Keynes uses elegant maths and trendy words to argue in favor of crackpot ideas.