54 sats \ 5 replies \ @SimpleStacker OP 9h \ parent \ on: Voters Love the Policies That Economists Love to Hate econ
They're clever enough to concoct fancy rationale's for policies that are obviously cynical to everyone else.
So true. And oftentimes, the more fanciful you get the more academic success you get since only “novel” results are publishable. I could bitch about our profession all day lol
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37 sats \ 4 replies \ @Undisciplined 7h
I could bitch about our profession all day lol
Me too, and yet I still think it's one of the better academic disciplines.
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53 sats \ 3 replies \ @SimpleStacker OP 7h
Agreed. Still the most honest and rigorous among the social sciences. Not sure how it compares to history though
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34 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bell_curve 6h
History departments are terrible and one sided
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15 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 6h
I think their issue is not operating out of a theoretical framework. They think that let's them be objective, but it actually leads to defaulting to whatever the prevailing propaganda version of events was.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 7h
I don't have a great feel for that, personally. However, I've certainly heard historians like Tom Woods and Thaddeus Russel bemoan the plight of their profession.
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