61 sats \ 2 replies \ @TNStacker 2 Jul \ parent \ on: Robert Reich’s Blind Spots: The Elephant in the Progressive Left’s Room econ
Ah, disagree. I know PhDs in Physics and Chemistry who are advanced engineers and confer PHDs in Biomedical Engineering. They'll yell you they are both. One says I'm educated in Physics, but work as an engineer.
That's fine. I wasn't expecting this to turn into a debate about the meaning of "economist".
I am a labor economist and I don't think of him as one of us, because he wasn't trained in labor economics and he doesn't work as a labor economist. I can appreciate that these fine distinctions that are drawn within a field may not be shared by those outside the field.
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Secretary of Labor is never an economist
And not just Labor. Any cabinet level position is a political appointment.
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