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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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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  - Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Ah, so it's not that they're conservative, it's that they desire the same things conservatives want. But they're totally apolitical, and it's just a happy coincidence.
    
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    EhList@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    The overwhelming majority are liberals. There aren’t many progressives but that’s different than there being a conservative bent.
    
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  - EhList@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    So you never studied any social science then?
    
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- EhList@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  That doesn’t state that the school holds an ideological bent. Did you read what you posted?
  
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