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Economists don't study human dignity or justice which the Pope was talking about.
by turing_complete 1y ago
Economists don't study human dignity or justice which the Pope was talking about.
- vFunct 1y agoThey literally do.
- kulahan 1y agoThey explicitly don’t. Money and dignity are in no way related. They may, on occasion, study how people will deprive themselves of dignity for money, but of course this is not within a hundred miles of the primary interest of the field. It is essentially macro-psychology. It is trying to remove identification of the individual to find generic patterns.
- vFunct 1y agoEconomics isn’t just “money”. Economists study things like stripper names to abortion effects on crime. Go ahead and read the book Freakonomics.
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- kulahan 1y agoEconomics and money are not the same thing. This is why I specifically pointed out that they’re just mediocre psychologists.
- _m_p 1y agoWhich elements of this book haven't been totally debunked?
- vFunct 1y agoYah I heard about people trying to debunk it over the years, with zero effect.
- BugheadTorpeda5 1y agoNo, they don't.