Henry Farrell has a caustic blog post on economists who think they're smarter than epidemiologists, keying off a recent column of mine. But my col was about politicians, not economists; who are these economists we're talking about? 1/ https://crookedtimber.org/2020/07/20/economists-versus-epidemiologists/ …
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He did the thing where he says “everyone who disagrees with me is being sentimental”
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Economists think they are Universal Geniuses, for reasons I cannot fathom. Their wind-up models are based on demonstrably false premises, and as a profession, they cannnot agree on fairly simple questions.
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I mean, Larry Summers had the audacity to begin a paper with the words, "There are idiots. Look around," and this shocked the world of econ such that it is talked about to this day.
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Some of the questions at the end... my goodness.
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Why doesn't Farrell name his friend Cowen?
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Tyler Cowen is one of the few economists (perhaps included with those copied here


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Alan Kay famously commented that point of view is worth 80 IQ points. (Of course, that should be ±80).
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