It's meant to prevent you from talking about questions of "value" — of what it's moral to do, and why, of how society should determine value
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@aspasia_project Well, the big painful example is Milton Friedman in Chile, right?
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@aspasia_project Asked what he was doing there, basically said economic expansion was a good; just helping them with technical advice, etc.
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@aspasia_project I think that's how it works usually. Not so much, "we are telling you what is moral" but "here are statistics which have no
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@aspasia_project moral content; go forth and apply them."
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@hoodedu Hmm yes that's about what we try to do. In the same way that (say) a behavioral ecologist will say: this is how animals seem to act -
@hoodedu or a physicist might say: this is how an atom may be split. The results may be used morally (or not) but they're positively valid -
@aspasia_project Right; I just think econ as science is a lot dicier than physics; removing moral values much harder/more deceptive (IMO.)
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@aspasia_project Certainly not saying economists are more evil personally than, say, journalists.
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@hoodedu oh no I didn't think you were calling us evil personally, just professionally :) -
@aspasia_project I think like with most things it can be used for good or ill. I just really mistrust the centrality of econ to policy
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