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Re:Why Are Economists Giving Piketty the Cold Shoulder? (2017) by taffer on Sunday March 31, 2019 @03:27PM (#19537748)
Can biologists or paleontologists forecast evolution? Can meteorologists forecast the weather in four months?

> Vaccine did in fact significantly reduce or even eradicate some diseases. The track record of predictions out of economics is a lot spottier.

The same applies to the track record of seismologists. Moreover, forecasting is a very, very small field of economics.

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