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In fairness to economics, it's one of the most politicized fields. Back when hard sciences were a threat to some religious dogma, there was lots of trouble even
by lionhearted 17y ago
In fairness to economics, it's one of the most politicized fields. Back when hard sciences were a threat to some religious dogma, there was lots of trouble even doing astronomy. Economics is up against something a little similar to that right now.
- kingkongrevenge 17y agoEconomics is inherently political. Please drop the pretense that there can ever be economic study not deeply interwoven with politics.
- albertcardona 17y agoThere can be. There is such thing as integrity and objectivity, particularly with the hindsight of centuries.
- Herring 17y agohttp://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=market+failure http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=market+failure My guess is it's doing as well as any social science, probably better.