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Re:How economics became a religion by mannykannot on Sunday July 16, 2017 @09:23AM (#14781883)
I hope that 'right', in this context, means that it leads to observationally verifiable predictions of significant real-world events, and not, say, 'makes the math tractable', or 'produces results that conform to the existing tenets of economic theory'.

I would be less skeptical if there were not apparently at least two schools of economists, producing diametrically opposed analyses and recommendations for any situation.

Re:How economics became a religion by nabla9 on Sunday July 16, 2017 @11:02AM (#14782247)
> would be less skeptical if there were not apparently at least two schools of economists, producing diametrically opposed analyses and recommendations for any situation.

What you perceive is large part politics, not academic economics.