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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

The real question is why we even bother discussing a curve which was pulled out of the ass of a man who went on to invent a hydralic computer to model the national economy of the United Kingdom. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Machine

I think his greatest achievement was to demonstrate the concept of being a really clever idiot.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Economists are the priests of capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I have examined the ~~goat entrails~~ quarterly metrics and determined that ~~gods~~ markets require more ~~human sacrifices~~ corporate tax breaks

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (6 children)

The second graph is a fucking terrible graph as none of the data points correlate with a specific time which would be needed to make a proper comparison to the graph on the left.

If you thought this made sense you are mistaken. OP likely knows fuckall about economics

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

If it's an attempt at amogus, it sucks too

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Only tangentially related, but it's often accepted that there is no Nobel prize in economics. There is a Nobel memorial prize in economics (link), but as it was set up after Nobel's death it is in a slightly different category.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Economics is a subset of moral philosophy, which just happens to care a lot about mathematics but is (or should be) nonetheless primarily concerned with questions of morality.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

not sure i agree per se but im willing to hear more?

maybe you mean to distinguish between economics as a study and economics as a mode of policy

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