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> the economic section is putting forward a strongly Keynesian point of view... not a consensus. I think part of the reason for the confusion is that many peop
by gknoy 14y ago
> the economic section is putting forward a strongly Keynesian point of view... not a consensus.
I think part of the reason for the confusion is that many people (including me) do not know enough about economics to know what it means to be Keynesian (vs Austrian or other schools, I believe?), in much the same way that most non-programmers have no idea what we mean when we are talking about object-oriented vs functional.
It doesn't help that most economic schools seem to be like religions: All the other guys are wrong, and ours is the only one that's right. Sure, you can look that up on Wikipedia, but if you don't know enough about the domain it's easy to not realize that there are alternatives (or what they are).
- calpaterson 14y agoThe same is really true of a lot of fields. Is C better than Haskell or Python? What Bayesianism and the Frequentists? Analytic philosophy or continental? Everyone seems to disagree a lot. You just have to dive in and start reading I'm afraid. Pick a few books that oppose and compare the views for yourself.