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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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    • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      So you never studied any social science then?

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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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