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Agriculture is only 12,000 years old. I suspect there are many more possible levels.
Laugh while you can, number boy.
Economics:
Let's turn this
Into this!
That's capitalism. There are other forms of economics.
Yeah but capitalist economics is all that they teach in the indoctrination system... Unless maybe you pay for it later in college.
And TBH the scientific credentials are pretty trash either way.
Any "scientific" field that produces Art Laffer is a fraud.
Dude isn't even a low point in econ. People like him are the reason econ exists.
99% of the time it's just astrology for men.
Math is for useless things like solving Diophantine equations or playing with primes. I will not have math slandered by associating it with applications.
Math is doing the heavy lifting, economics is just borrowing the muscles and hoping no one notices. 😄
Son of math and sociology
Most of the time it's just people working backward from whatever conclusion suits their politics.
well i seemingly have a very different viewpoint, because the most interesting economics bits are econometrics, essentially data science - the same things all other stem folks use to find the underlying distribution, estimators, their significance, finding the p value. Using this to model whole world is just as wrong as saying all of chem is solved by taking mendelev periodic table. sourely it works, and explains some stuff, but just knowing it does not predict all of chemistry. same way, for example ls-lm model (suppply demand curve) does not explain the whole world, and good economists do not claim they can explain it (sorry for using bad examples, 1 only took 2-3 eco courses).
Marx was an economist too
He was the economist
Economics is just applied statistics with a little sociology mixed in
And simplified until linear relationships appear.
To be fair, my engineering degree also did this.
Good thing I learnt that linearity in my chosen specialty only breaks down in the exotic circumstances of air, room temperature, 1 atm pressure, and distances of <0,5 m or >30 m.
In college - Assume everything is linear
Later - Everything is not linear
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Economics, as an intellectual discipline, is closer to theology than physics. Its power is proportional to the belief it commands.
Finance is an arbitrary subset of mathematics, cherry picked to retroactively support a given economic model, and applied as its supporting mythology.
It’s entirely imaginary, which means alternatives are only ever a conjuring away.
The opposite. Its power is inversely proportional to the belief it commands.
The efficient market hypothesis only works if people don't believe it.
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Don't forget the other sibling: IT. Theoretical Computer Science is basically a form of mathematics, with all its algorithms and data structures that you can study and do proofs about.
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Economics is the math of political science.
Economics is the fakest science ever. It's just perpetuating the capitalist scheme. Don't waste your time learning it. It'll all be irrelevant in the end anyways.
Economics is basically social psychology with some numbers sprinkled in.
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No. Economics is the child of math, not a sibling. It's only half math. The other parent is philosophy/creative writing. That's how you end up with the myth of barter and trickle-down, the stuff based on speculative storytelling, that refuse to listen to math.
ITT: People who have never studied economics incorrectly diagnosing all of its problems
ITT: People incapable of justifying the scientific basis of economics.
Economics as a field in theory is great. The problem is that it's been hijacked by capitalism, and 90% of the stuff taught in faculties is antiscientific. The founding grounds of neoliberal economics lay in the Austrian school, which prides itself in being non-falsifiable by evidence. Anything stemming from there is a pile of dogshit. Marxian economics and Modern Monetary Theory, on the other hand, have wonderful predictive capabilities and are proper science
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