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[โ€“] YetiBeets@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

ITT: People who have never studied economics incorrectly diagnosing all of its problems

[โ€“] Riverside@reddthat.com 1 points 16 hours ago

Economics as a field in theory is great. The problem is that it's been hijacked by capitalism, and 90% of the stuff taught in faculties is antiscientific. The founding grounds of neoliberal economics lay in the Austrian school, which prides itself in being non-falsifiable by evidence. Anything stemming from there is a pile of dogshit. Marxian economics and Modern Monetary Theory, on the other hand, have wonderful predictive capabilities and are proper science

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