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> turning into an anti intellectual space where takes like "economics is not a science, it's a social science!" are the best we have to offer A bank taking an
by VictorPath 4y ago
> turning into an anti intellectual space where takes like "economics is not a science, it's a social science!" are the best we have to offer
A bank taking an endowment awarding a prize and money to physicists, chemists and biologists, and ramming in to it a prize for economists saying nonsense the bankers like to hear, is the definition of anti-intellectual.
The physicists, chemists and biologists are the intellectuals and scientists, the economists are frauds telling the bankers what they want to hear.
- snake_doc 4y agoArgument: > turning into an anti intellectual space where takes like "economics is not a science, it's a social science!" are the best we have to offer Evidence: VictorPath's reply > A bank taking an endowment awarding a prize and money to physicists, chemists and biologists, and ramming in to it a prize for economists saying nonsense the bankers like to hear, is the definition of anti-intellectual. The physicists, chemists and biologists are the intellectuals and scientists, the economists are frauds telling the bankers what they want to hear. Q.E.D.
- kiba 4y agoNeither of these intellectuals and scientists are any good for doing economics, precisely because they are on a wrong level of abstraction.
- yobbo 4y agoHow does one evaluate the work of an economist - repeatably and independently?