Re:Nobel Prize in Economics Awarded to Ben Bernanke, Douglas...
by snake_doc on Monday October 10, 2022 @11:48AM
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Argument:
> turning into an anti intellectual space where takes like "economics is not a science, it's a social science!" are the best we have to offer
Evidence: VictorPath's reply
> A bank taking an endowment awarding a prize and money to physicists, chemists and biologists, and ramming in to it a prize for economists saying nonsense the bankers like to hear, is the definition of anti-intellectual. The physicists, chemists and biologists are the intellectuals and scientists, the economists are frauds telling the bankers what they want to hear.
Q.E.D.
A bank taking an endowment awarding a prize and money to physicists, chemists and biologists, and ramming in to it a prize for economists saying nonsense the bankers like to hear, is the definition of anti-intellectual.
The physicists, chemists and biologists are the intellectuals and scientists, the economists are frauds telling the bankers what they want to hear.