>Economics is such a funny field to me. The systems involved are incredibly complex, yet economists habitually speak as though their models are anything more th

>Economics is such a funny field to me. The systems involved are incredibly complex, yet economists habitually speak as though their models are anything more than that: models. It’s funny that you bring this up, because this idea that the the power brokers forgot that their models were simplistic models of human behavior instead now thought of them as full, bidirectional descriptions of behavior is the thesis of many Adam Curtis documentaries. I’m thinking about the The Trap in particular.