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		andreilys on June 6, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Humanities aren't a science and shouldn't be treat... I was more thinking of top economists like Alan Greenspan and his comments about having banished volatility, followed shortly after by the '08 crash. Much of economics is politics disguised as technocracy.

FranzFerdiNaN on June 6, 2020 [–]

Of course it is. Economics uses to be called political economy for a reason. The idea that economics can be considered separately from politics is laughable.

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