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You can criticize the study without engaging in ad hominem attacks. The University of Chicago’s economics department is one of the best schools for economics in the world. You might not like the fact that they are not advocating your political bias but that does not change the overall quality of that program.

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Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Saying that a conservative economic school is pro-business and anti-labor is not what I'd call an ad hominem, but a statement of fact. Saying they want to prop up the commercial real estate business isn't, either.

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- EhList@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It is not a conservative school. The clearest sign someone has never studied or understood academic economics is when they attempt to assign a partisan bias to the institution.
  
  It is an ad hominem attack
  
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  - Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    The Chicago School itself says:
    
    Conservative politicians like Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and Margaret Thatcher championed Friedman’s ideas
    
    So maybe the school itself holds itself to some kind of political neutrality, but conservatives love their theories.
    
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    ElegantBiscuit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    This. Economics is a social science where every theory or opinion aims to achieve different varying desired outcomes for different people and in achieved in different ways, with spectrums for every step along the process. The entire field is on a spectrum, that also generally aligns with the political spectrum because politics, like economics, strives to achieve a certain outcome for a certain group of people, in a certain way. Trying to disentangle the field of economics from people. and the politics that people create, is a red flag for not actually knowing what economics is.
    
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    EhList@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    That doesn’t state that the school holds an ideological bent. Did you read what you posted?
    
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