People can't imagine how venal, incurious and self-satisfied our leaders are, and how easily their doctrines fall apart under any scrutiny. Recursively ask an economist 'Why?' three times and their ideas and career disintegrate, yet this never happens.https://twitter.com/LHSummers/status/1241329121768230912 …
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and proceed down to the granular level from that vantage point, always placing things within the context of the whole. This affords them insights not granted by methodological individualism; as everyone who's applied for work knows, things are affected as much by [...]
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the possibilities of options as the actual choices that are effected. Economists can't see it, can't conceptualize the value of production over products, as production-exchanges are made qualitatively identical to consumption-exchanges in the Economist framework [...]
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obscuring the truth, which is that they are the latter's predicate and father. They indiscriminately convert system dynamics to money values and then are shocked when an economy with fewer tools can't produce as many masks.
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