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Why Economists Don’t Write More Papers on Political Finance
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- redis_mlc 5y agoEconomists are captured by their employers - govt. and businesses. Either they provide the expected answer, or they're gone. Dr. Thomas Sowell once told the Dept. of Labor how to directly calculate and verify a certain category of unemployment that they wanted to remain fuzzy, and all hell broke loose. The drama turned him from a Marxist to a Capitalist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sowell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sowell