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Re:The public has a right to know how companies that pay no ... by equivocating000 on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @04:46AM (#24978054)
Laws of physics are discovered by human experiment.

Economics are defined by humans.

They’re taught to each other by humans.

It’s all wrapped in how we treat each other at scale.

Separating the two is impossible except as a semantics game.

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Re:The public has a right to know how companies that pay no ... by Intermernet on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @07:56AM (#24979186)
They're separable by experimental verification. The laws of physics are multiple orders of magnitude more accurate than the laws of economics, and the physicists are certain that at least one of their models is wrong.

Try getting an admission like that out of an economist!

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Re:The public has a right to know how companies that pay no ... by ls612 on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @04:26PM (#24984195)
As economists we are certain all of our models are wrong! But some can be useful in a constrained environment to answer specific questions, so thats why we have so damn many of them!
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