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> "Mainstream economics" is doing a lot of heavy lifting. As is "mainstream medicine" or "mainstream climate science". If you don't trust mainstream science, y
by taffer 3mo ago
> "Mainstream economics" is doing a lot of heavy lifting.
As is "mainstream medicine" or "mainstream climate science". If you don't trust mainstream science, you must be either extremely smart or just delusional.
- _DeadFred_ 3mo agoSoft sciences are not at all the same thing as hard science.
- taffer 3mo agoNeither is medicine, climate science, nor the marxist interpretation of the labor theory of value I was replying to.
- andrekandre 3mo agoeconomics isn't a hard science though; and there is a lot of politics underlying a lot of theory there (see the laffer curve/trickle down etc)
- demorro 3mo agoSurely you can see that not trusting mainstream economics shouldn't be as controversial as the hard sciences. Mainstream economics consistently fails to make correct or replicatable predictions.