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refer to Capital in the Twenty-First Century yikes, no thanks, keep it academic.
by randomcarbloke 5y ago
refer to Capital in the Twenty-First Century
yikes, no thanks, keep it academic.
- redgrizzly 5y agoHow's Picketty's work not academic ?
- mistrial9 5y agoI have not read Picketty myself, but inferring .. Picketty is quantitatively substantiated, but also adds political descriptions and prescriptions; not academic in the sense of neutrality and reliance on accepted sources. Honestly, calling for an academic treatment of economics like this, is less compelling for me even in retrospect, than quantitatively substantiated, current, analysis. How many people understand modern financial flows at scale? .. the topic of the original post.
- redgrizzly 5y agoI get your point now, however he does a really good job in Capital in the XXIe century to be purely descriptive and mostly rigorous (and why this work was regarded so highly even from rightist, neoclassical economists). His political philosophy contribution is mainly from his interviews and Capital and Ideology which is politically loaded because logically from his political "activism" he had to respond to the first book in which he wasn't. (as an idea, demonstrating descriptively how inequality works, how capitalism favors inequalities, people were expecting now what do you propose about it ? Which is then a ecopol book). I get where you came from though.
- baq 5y agoeconomics without politics is useless and pointless. economics is a social and behavioral science. the job of economists is to analyze and synthetize policies.