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 (DIR) Post #AkfBFiJ5cUj5UDsRIO by publius@mastodon.sdf.org
       2024-08-05T17:08:33Z
       
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       @VickyACAB I've said many times (to the extent it has become a stock phrase on my #anonradio show) that the function of the economist today is that of the soothsayer of classical times, to give the appearance of divine sanction to the decisions of the powerful.https://anonradio.net/tag/a-step-farther-out/
       
 (DIR) Post #AkfBSoTS0BUSNUyBBA by Benaresh@mastodon.social
       2024-08-05T16:56:26Z
       
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       @VickyACAB "why we should treat "economists" like Court Magicians or Haruspex"Yes exactly! Plausible sounding nonsense with no bearing on Reality. Economics as a field gets always tauted as something akin to mathematics in the same way Phrenology tried to pass as biology
       
 (DIR) Post #AkfBSoxaC9apsx4F96 by publius@mastodon.sdf.org
       2024-08-05T17:10:44Z
       
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       @Benaresh @VickyACAB Economists want to pretend they're doing something like physics, with iron laws written into the structure of the universe itself, which only await discovering, whereas the actual nature of their field is moral philosophy, or the study of human behaviour in society (what Adam Smith was professor of).