economics is not a hard science - eviltoast
  • dustyData@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    That’s dubious. Considering that economists deliberately ignore strong established psychological theories to make theirs work. Economical theory also runs contrary to a lot of established notions of sociology. Economics is closer to politics than to any science.

    • eestileib@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Economists are there to perform the job that Theology departments used to do: provide a mystical moral justification of whatever the assholes in charge want to do to everybody else.