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Re:Study Says World's Stocks Controlled by Select Few by lionhearted on Saturday August 29, 2009 @09:31AM (#793147)
In fairness to economics, it's one of the most politicized fields. Back when hard sciences were a threat to some religious dogma, there was lots of trouble even doing astronomy. Economics is up against something a little similar to that right now.
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Re:Study Says World's Stocks Controlled by Select Few by Herring on Saturday August 29, 2009 @11:21AM (#793260)
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=market+failure

My guess is it's doing as well as any social science, probably better.

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Re:Study Says World's Stocks Controlled by Select Few by kingkongrevenge on Saturday August 29, 2009 @02:04PM (#793441)
Economics is inherently political. Please drop the pretense that there can ever be economic study not deeply interwoven with politics.
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Re:Study Says World's Stocks Controlled by Select Few by albertcardona on Saturday August 29, 2009 @04:27PM (#793585)
There can be. There is such thing as integrity and objectivity, particularly with the hindsight of centuries.
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