53 sats \ 3 replies \ @SimpleStacker OP 7h \ parent \ on: Voters Love the Policies That Economists Love to Hate econ
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 7h
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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