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I am not sure this makes conservatives sound great. They talk about how absolutely self-defeating Trump's policies are towards reshoring efforts. Freakonomics s
by ocdtrekkie 1y ago
I am not sure this makes conservatives sound great. They talk about how absolutely self-defeating Trump's policies are towards reshoring efforts. Freakonomics seems pretty genuinely centrist to me.
- mwkaufma 1y agoIf you think Chicago School economics is centrist, then "centrist" is just another word for conservative.
- monkeyelite 1y agoInstead of classifying everything on a line to rhetorically suggest that you are objectively in the middle, recognize that there is a broad landscape of social, cultural, and economic positions. Trump in fact acts contrary to most recommendations from Chicago economists, even though both are “conservative”.
- mwkaufma 1y agoYou're misreading between the lines. I'm objectively on the left. As I understand things, there is no "line" and no "middle", except for media-types dispatched to hype the status-quo.
- monkeyelite 1y agoThen why are you surprised that a podcast/book about economics represents the dominant academic view of economics?
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- mwkaufma 1y ago> dominant academic view of economics Chicago School is the conservative view of economics, not the dominant view.
- monkeyelite 1y agoWould you say freakeconomics is presenting heterodox economic theory? And if so how?
- mwkaufma 1y agoNondominant != heterodox.
- monkeyelite 1y agoOk. I think this is becoming a pretty strained argument. Leftists don’t generally like mainstream economics and subscribe to more niche segments. That’s ok - and there is a lot to criticize. But it’s also wrong that freakeconomics is peddling “conservative ideas” unless you do agree economics itself as an academic field is conservative coded.
- HDThoreaun 1y agothis is wrong for economics. The dominant view among economists is largely homogenous.