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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Apr 2020

    Jeet Heer Retweeted tylercowen

    This post inadvertently but usefully helps explain the current pandemic of amateur epidemiology. One huge vector of this is economists (defined broadly), a profession whose members are socialized to think they are smarter than everyone else.https://twitter.com/tylercowen/status/1249303883689660418 …

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    tylercowenVerified account @tylercowen
    I know many of you must have these same thoughts and questions: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/04/what-does-this-economist-think-of-epidemiology.html …
    7:18 AM - 12 Apr 2020
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    • Drake E. (he/him) Alex Morash Jared Crum Andrew Drey popcornbag propagandarth - pavlas GOAT🐙💚 Chicken Princess 🏳️‍🌈 mateus Vasilis Vassalos
    32 replies 153 retweets 1,218 likes
      1. Rapid Homes, Rapid Bike Barriers, Rapid Busses!‏ @FlipperForty 12 Apr 2020
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Rapid Homes, Rapid Bike Barriers, Rapid Busses! Retweeted Gray Kimbrough

        https://twitter.com/graykimbrough/status/1249322579581526017?s=20 …

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        Gray Kimbrough @graykimbrough
        Some economists really don't see this as satire, it seems: pic.twitter.com/vHF3VLEYoh
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      1. Matt‏ @jonesm80 12 Apr 2020
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Economists and political pundits opining on things they don't understand. It's no different than any other major issue we face as a country. Bet it doesn't change after this one either.

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      2. alex block  🚅‏ @alex_block 12 Apr 2020
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        I literally LOLed at the GRE scores bit.

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      3. Anne Ward‏ @AnneCW 12 Apr 2020
        Replying to @alex_block @HeerJeet

        We apparently are defined by test scores, as per Tyler Cowen. How small a perspective he holds.

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      2. FREE PARKING  🇸🇩‏ @vertov 12 Apr 2020
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        It’s known as Engineers Disease, and, yes, economists tend to suffer a great deal from this malady.

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      3. Zig‏ @MattZiggus 12 Apr 2020
        Replying to @vertov @HeerJeet

        Anecdotally but funny tradespeople will tell you the worst people to work are engineers. It’s a constant stream of “Why are you doing it this way?” Then they tell you an alternative way, then you tell them the price of that way, then they go away and leave you alone

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      2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 12 Apr 2020
        Replying to @mattyglesias

        Those law professors think they're economists! That's why I said "broadly defined."

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      1. Tom Saskatchewan‏ @SteveHerring32 12 Apr 2020
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        Spoiler, they’re not

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      1. Jory Soderman‏ @Joryls 12 Apr 2020
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        Not really. He isn’t economists. http://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/policy-for-the-covid-19-crisis/ …

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