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Honest question. Do you know what an economist is? I'm pretty sure you don't. Source: I'm an economist.

• rjzzleep 5y ago
  As if anyone needed confirmation to my point. But I'll take the bait. Teachers of a social science cleverly disguised as real science, based on mathematical models that are little more complex than high school math, pushed by people such as you, who think arrogance is a virtue. Just like the nobel laureates who are responsible for the 2008 financial crises, a lot of standard policies the IMF and world bank has pushed, which has created phenomenons such as the oligarchs due to rapid privatization after the fall of the soviet union. Patterns that these very same economists have repeated in countless countries leading to same misery and the only thing they could come up with in response was "I guess I was wrong, sorry.". If anything 2008 would have been a good wake up call to kick out the currently dominating pile of economists and give the ones with an actual advanced math understanding an opportunity to try out and teach their models instead and turn this pseudoscience into actual science. But at the end of the day, people like you have a vested interest in keeping the profession as it is. Not only for the sake of their jobs, but more importantly apparently for the sake of their egos. Source: a person who respects actual scientists.
  • zingplex 5y ago
    Could we put Nobel laureates in scare quotes. The Nobel Prize in economics wasn't actually established by Alfred Nobel but instead Sweden's national bank trying to add credibility to their pseudoscience. The official title of the prize is the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Even members of the Nobel family have come out and said the prize is bullshit.