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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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    Apollo@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Neoliberals are conservative.
    
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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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