Timeline for How is economics even a science, rather than just politics?
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| Apr 4, 2021 at 22:08 | vote | accept | nick012000 | ||
| Mar 21, 2021 at 23:34 | vote | accept | nick012000 | ||
| Mar 17, 2021 at 17:51 | answer | added | SystemTheory | timeline score: -4 | |
| Mar 17, 2021 at 16:57 | answer | added | 1muflon1♦ | timeline score: 7 | |
| Mar 17, 2021 at 13:13 | comment | added | Criticizing Israel not allowed | I'll point out that regardless of the status of economics as a whole, many parts of economics are pretty much settled science. Supply and demand equilibrium, for example. Lots of stuff about human behaviour in the presence of various incentives. Supply and demand equilibrium is the ideal way to produce the right amount of product based on supply and demand curves (but it doesn't prove those curves are the ideal curves!). We know exactly how tax affects those curves in market economies, which is useful knowledge, even if it doesn't apply to your hypothetical non-market economy. And so on. | |
| Mar 17, 2021 at 13:10 | comment | added | Criticizing Israel not allowed | @BBKing and the follow-up question would be for the President, "why did you dismantle the pandemic response team?", or to the President and state governors, "why didn't you follow the expert advice to stop the pandemic getting to this size?" | |
| Mar 17, 2021 at 13:10 | comment | added | Criticizing Israel not allowed | @BBKing the better question would be "why didn't you see a pandemic coming?" and the answer is "we did but the President ignored us". Or "why didn't you see the pandemic reaching such a massive size?" and the answer is "we did and we told everyone how to stop it before it grew to this size and nobody listened" | |
| Mar 17, 2021 at 12:51 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Mar 17, 2021 at 11:52 | comment | added | csilvia | @BBKing I think you should ignore low quality comments like that, this is clearly someone baiting and seeking attention with absurd comments | |
| Mar 17, 2021 at 11:28 | comment | added | BB King | @Steve So are you arguing that epidemiology is not a science? Because that takes us from "Is economics a science" to "what is science and can it exist today". | |
| Mar 17, 2021 at 11:17 | comment | added | Steve | @BBKing, indeed! One may argue that it's the same cause in both cases, that those who claim to be engaged in "science", are actually only engaged in so much study as promotes, and does not harm, the capitalist status quo, and scarcely turn their minds to study of a kind that would impugn it. | |
| Mar 17, 2021 at 11:11 | answer | added | Ishan Kashyap Hazarika | timeline score: 13 | |
| Mar 17, 2021 at 11:01 | comment | added | BB King | @Steve, why didn’t epidemiologists see Covid-19 coming precisely in 2020? | |
| Mar 17, 2021 at 10:58 | comment | added | Steve | The British monarch put it best when, talking to a school of economists in the aftermath of the 2008 crash, she asked: "why didn't you see this coming?". | |
| Mar 17, 2021 at 10:40 | history | edited | 1muflon1♦ |
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| Mar 17, 2021 at 10:39 | comment | added | 1muflon1♦ | Welcome to Economics:SE. Thank you for your question; please consider revising it to be more in line with our community expectations. Like many other stacks, we expect questions to provide evidence of prior research. That helps us to understand the question, and avoids our repeating work you've already done. Our help center, and other stacks provide additional resources to assist with revisions. | |
| Mar 17, 2021 at 10:16 | answer | added | BB King | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 17, 2021 at 9:59 | comment | added | Giskard | Nevertheless, you are entitled to your opinion; I am also rather skeptical about the economic discipline. Luckily no one is forcing either of us to post on this forum, we are free to do better things with our time! | |
| Mar 17, 2021 at 9:58 | comment | added | Giskard | I think you are confusing economics with politicians talking about economic policy or the economy. | |
| Mar 17, 2021 at 9:11 | review | Low quality posts | |||
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| Mar 17, 2021 at 8:45 | history | asked | nick012000 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |