Re:2023 Nobel Prize in economics awarded to Claudia Goldin
by grotorea on Monday October 09, 2023 @08:03AM
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Isn't CS proper (not software engineering) much more a field of math?
> I think the issue is not an objection to marketing but an objection to the inherently political nature of economics. The people who don't like the phrase Noble Prize in Economics generally don't agree with the political aspirations of neoliberal economists to shape and control global policy. There is something very troubling about the amount of power that central bankers and academics wield given how flimsy their methods are.
Hmm, good point, I wonder if it's that or just good old internet "ackhuallyyy".
> I think the issue is not an objection to marketing but an objection to the inherently political nature of economics. The people who don't like the phrase Noble Prize in Economics generally don't agree with the political aspirations of neoliberal economists to shape and control global policy. There is something very troubling about the amount of power that central bankers and academics wield given how flimsy their methods are.
Hmm, good point, I wonder if it's that or just good old internet "ackhuallyyy".