Comment on Flowchart for STEM

• I_CAST_BEAM_OF_BATS_I_CAST_BOLT_OF_BATS@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  What are you talking about Keynesian liberals or something? I do like to read Adam Tooze to see him close in on an interesting point only to veer wildly. Foreign Policy in general has some interesting writers if you want to mine the most advanced liberal cope.

  The model of economics I’m describing is the one which has been most heavily promoted by the west, neoliberalism, it has been used to dissolve the social welfare state which was set up to compete with the socialist bloc since defeating its chief rival and counterbalance in the USSR.

  I am aware of plenty of different non-Marxist models of economics and none of them are great because they treat various sectors of production wrong. China and Vietnam have their shit all figured out that’s why finance capital and food aid can’t decimate their agricultural production and then extort them into unfavorable IMF deals.

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  • Brosplosion@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I think you are conflating performance of economic models with the study of economic systems. Economics is literally just the study of a real phenomenon that occurs in the world. It’s a valid study to try and understand why it operates the way it does.

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    • I_CAST_BEAM_OF_BATS_I_CAST_BOLT_OF_BATS@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Most economics degrees expose people to the toxic neoliberalism I’m joking about in the intial reply though. It’s been weaponized against the third world to horrible effect.

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    • Collatz_problem@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Like 90% of economics is completely divorced from real phenomenons.

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  • Socsa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Have you actually been to rural China by any chance?

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