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    It's ridiculous that some people consider economics a "science"

    @supercow You’re entirely correct. Modern western economics is neoliberal economics, and is based on firmly philosophical principles about the role of the market in natural human behaviour. Basically everything we are taught is rational for human beings, self interest and barter seeking, is...
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    It's ridiculous that some people consider economics a "science"

    @thewayofholiness It’s not study, it’s an assertion about human behaviours.
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    It's ridiculous that some people consider economics a "science"

    @esther90 That’s looking through the telescope backwards. The economies of people, civilisations, nations, the material availability and the scarcity and the challenges shape the desire, and shape culture. What our modern models try to predict is a specific kind of global consumerism.
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    It's ridiculous that some people consider economics a "science"

    @esther90 All economics are founded on assumptions about human desire and behaviour, though. The bedrock is always philosophy.
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    It's ridiculous that some people consider economics a "science"

    @oxid All economics is philosophy.
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    It's ridiculous that some people consider economics a "science"

    @dpardue Because neoliberal economical philosophy is psychopathic?
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