How economists rode maths to become our era’s astrologers

Re:How economists rode maths to become our era’s astrologers by chimeracoder on Saturday July 22, 2017 @07:42PM (#14830069)

> Comments from people who took just one Economics 101 class in college baselessly trashing the field making it to the top of the comment list disappoints me.

Yeah, as someone who actually has a degree in both computer science and economics, it's really embarrassing to see the level of discourse that pervades threads on economics.

It's like seeing an economics student who's taken half an introductory CS class argue that CS is "a fundamentally broken pseudoscience", because they just found an implementation of an O(log(n)) algorithm that was slower than an implementation of an O(n^2) algorithm.

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Re:How economists rode maths to become our era’s astrologers by soVeryTired on Sunday July 23, 2017 @03:35AM (#14831283)

For you and GP: it's not enough to claim that a criticism is ill-founded. You need to show how it's ill-founded.

Your defense in particular sounds a lot like an argument from authority.

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