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by aric 4067 days ago
The bar for a "science" couldn't get much lower.
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formulaT 4067 days ago
Economics as a discipline is very reasonable given the constraints involved (studying human beings not particles, no experiments, short history of events to study). Unfortunately it takes a few years to get up to speed in the discipline, and only a few hours to write an "economics is all nonsense" blog article. Also see https://xkcd.com/793/
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aric 4066 days ago
- Buyer beware of someone selling their understanding of economics as a "discipline."

- Supply and demand is a law not unlike Candy Crush is a post-scarcity economy.

- The Ferengi Rules of Acquisition are probably just guidelines, marketed as rules to sell more copies.

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