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fossilesque@mander.xyz to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 7 months ago

Trio of professors win Nobel economics prize for work on post-colonial wealth

www.theguardian.com

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Trio of professors win Nobel economics prize for work on post-colonial wealth

www.theguardian.com

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British-born Simon Johnson and James A Robinson and Turkish-American Daron Acemoğlu share £810,000 prize

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/19330369

Alt title: 3 Old White Men Discover Colonialsm Bad

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  • ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net
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    Regular reminder that the Nobel Prize in Economics is not an actual Nobel Prize, it was added later and funded by a Swedish bank (which took a ton of Nazi gold btw)

    This is because Economics is not a real science and only deserves to receive awards alongside astrology, tarot reading, and homeopathy.

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      Economics are a real science. Neoliberal economics aren’t.

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        Economics is at worst a complete pseudoscience, at best it’s a social science on the level with sociology and anthropology, but economists like to pretend it’s comparable to physics and chemistry.

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          deleted by creator

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            I used some formula from physics to calculate my IQ and I have an IQ of 2 million which is pretty incredible. And that’s just physics.

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              ifuckinglovescience

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          It is a social science. But again, you’re not making a good point. It was thanks to economists that, for example, the USSR managed to have unprecedentedly fast industrialization and growth that ultimately enabled the defeat of the Nazis. Without concepts like the Fel’dman model, or the work of Gosplan (remember, economics), none of that would have been possible.

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          I save my disdain for “Business studies” and MBA’s, since there are Marxist economists

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          economics being a social science doesnt make it less real

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    ooooooooooooooh

    Economics is like the phrenology of political systems.

    “If you’re poor it’s because you’re just not democratic enough, sweaty” maybe-later-kiddo

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    What happened to india alone was pure horror and atrocity.

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    I’ve definitely started a book by these guys that I bailed on in less than 30 pages because I could see their shtick wasn’t going to be informative.

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