Trio of professors win Nobel economics prize for work on post-colonial wealth - eviltoast

Alt title: 3 Old White Men Discover Colonialsm Bad

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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    2 months ago

    Yes, and I’m sure people who taught children that 1+1=2 thought that Newton wasted a whole lot of time getting to what every small child knows in the Principia Mathematica.

    (Do you think that possibly the claim that, as a history teacher, you know what these people in an entirely different field knew before they did, so their work is pointless, is a bit silly?)

    • Michael H. Jenkins@infosec.pub
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      2 months ago

      That’s not what Newton did with the Principia. You can read it for free online to confirm this.

      I teach a course on the history of science if you’re interested.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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        2 months ago

        Yes, I know that’s not what he did with the Principia. I was simplifying something very complicated because it’s not in my field of expertise as if I was an expert on it.

        This should sound familiar to you.

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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            2 months ago

            I guess the same reason acting like you’re smarter than Nobel prizewinners is important to you.

            (Oh wait, neither of us are doing that? Huh.)

              • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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                2 months ago

                You too.

                Although next time you act like high school history teachers knew exactly for what a Nobel prize in economics was awarded for decades, I would suggest going by the academic papers that the winners wrote rather than a summary of a press release that doesn’t even name any of them.

                But then I don’t teach high school history, so I clearly don’t know my stuff when it comes to these things.