> Do you actually believe everyone in the entire field of economics believes people are robots? They don't, but a lot of them work (and preach) as if they are.

> Do you actually believe everyone in the entire field of economics believes people are robots? They don't, but a lot of them work (and preach) as if they are. This is not perculiar to economics, but rather a general practice of scientific programmes in the Lakatosian sense. But few fields cause such harm with and are so politically motivated to protect their core assumptions.