Re:The problem of prosocial lying in the economics profession
by johbjo on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @07:16AM
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A doctor treating a patient is not a scientist.
Neither is an academic economist that passively permits government officials to lie using scientific language.
The issue here is not the lying. The issue is the status of economics as a science. Once that status is gone, no one is obliged to listen to them any more than astrologists.
Neither is an academic economist that passively permits government officials to lie using scientific language.
The issue here is not the lying. The issue is the status of economics as a science. Once that status is gone, no one is obliged to listen to them any more than astrologists.