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• superkret@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Economy is just applied psychology.

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  • meyotch@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It really isn’t even that.

    The closest historical equivalent of an economic professional is the Haruspex.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruspex

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  • StopJoiningWars@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You’re all thinking of business. Economics is an empiric field of study that is based on science.

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    • Hagenman@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      voxday.net/…/krugman-admits-economists-were-wrong…

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      • StopJoiningWars@discuss.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Since when is a Nobel prize winner admitting they were wrong and did not know enough any sort of “proof” that a whole discipline is not real? Get off your high horse…

        I studied economics, none of it was purely psychology, and it was quite intense mathematically. It seems people conflate the discipline with business courses and assume it is just buzzwords and wishful thinking. When it is based on empirical data and experiments, just look at fields like how data science is applied or econometrics…

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• Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Don’t insult me with the e-word!

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