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[–] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's a field full of grifters that get lifted up because they tell rich people what they want to hear.

The Chicago School is the driving force behind the rise of neoliberalism, the movement right of Western democracies, and the return of fascism in America.

Yes, there's good work done in the field. But economists could prove definitively that capitalism is killing us all and that socialism is the only solution to organizing civilisation, and the only economists being platformed would continue to be neoliberal shit heels.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

True if your too much of a flunky there's still the Austrian School

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh don't get me started on the I'm afraid of math Austrian school

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Its to economics what flat earth is to physics