• DearOldGrandma@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      There are those of us who studied economics who aren’t brainwashed by Friedman and the like. But the US has proven for decades that it would prefer greed and individualism to influence policy rather than actual economic theory.

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        8 months ago

        yeah the base assumption upon which all of economics is flawed (rationality) but it still produces some useful analytical models

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        yeah the base assumption upon which all of economics is flawed (rationality) but it still produces some useful analytical models