economist, I'm not necessarily opposed to these ideals (though there are empirically manifist problems with past implementations). I *have*
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@chaosprime I've not read Das Kapital, or Keynes' General Theory, and I've only parts of The Wealth of Nations. -
@chaosprime While they're both tremendously important in the history of my field, they're not terribly relevant to modern theory, save for + -
@chaosprime the parts that are still part of fundamentals (and Keynes is most prominently represented there). -
@asymbina thank you for making me feel better about my extensive procrastination regarding giant lumps of Marx -
@asymbina tbh the idea of reading Marx and Engels makes me utterly weary b/c they were quite explicit about engaging in motivated reasoning -
@asymbina (Engels "putting socialism on a scientific basis" in the late edition intro to Anti-Duhring, i'm thinking of) -
@asymbina doesn't mean their ideas are bad but constantly being on guard for normative vs. descriptive exhausts the crap out of me -
@asymbina at least i enjoy Engels, he's irritated by exactly the same sorts of things that irritate me
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