• Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee
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    20 days ago

    The economy is not a natural phenomenon, it was designed… Economists explaining “how things work” is like someone explaining how baseball works… That’s great, but it’s time to change to an entirely different game, so you telling me how baseball works is worthless

  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
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    20 days ago

    Ronnie Ray-gun used to say “If you’re explaining, you’re losing”. A depressing number of people seem to agree with that idea.

  • AnyOldName3@lemmy.world
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    There’s no such thing as a Nobel Prize winning economist. Economists got upset that there wasn’t a Nobel Prize for them, so came up with The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, and then pretend it’s the same thing.

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      If you read some of the prize winning papers some of them are also hilarious, like how economists discovered that slavery is bad fairly recently.