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If you think Chicago School economics is centrist, then "centrist" is just another word for conservative.
by mwkaufma 1y ago
If 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.