Comment on All while the skeletal, crumbling, dusty bones of an econ major pulls business backwards into hell.

• Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I am glad you say soothsayers, I have been saying for decades, and even in this comment section before getting to this comment, that macro-economics is essentially astrology for MBA bros

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• mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Political Economy is the real economics degree.

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• lemjukes@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  the entrails say… “something, something, irrational exuberance”

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  • Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, yeah, that’s the problems with you entrailists, always buying into the fantasy of deciphering the economy from some gore. Now a principled economic astrologer, like myself? Well, let’s just say MY portfolio has never hit red.

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I find the field is only good when combined with humanities as a focal point, e.g. economic history or economic anthropology. It needs grounded.

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    • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Economics also plays a huge role in conservation as well.

      Sadly the focus is put on making the conservation work for the economic interests rather than the economy working for conservation efforts.

      My econ professors did not like me that much when I had to take their classes for my conservation degree.

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    • socsa@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There are STEM versions of economics as well which really end up being more behavior science and anthropology crossed with game theory.

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      • angrystego@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        Game theory is good

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