TFW you have tremendous respect for politicial scientists and politicial science — when you’re impressed by how much the field knows and discovers — but simultaneously think everyone, including yourself, is tragically confused because the system is too large to pin down.
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Recommendation: An Engine, Not a Camera How Financial Models Shape Marketshttps://mitpress.mit.edu/books/engine-not-camera …
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Thanks! Related (and alluded to earlier) https://www.amazon.com/Economists-Make-Markets-Performativity-Economics/dp/0691138494 …
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What's interesting, though, is the gulf between what economists say publicly and what they say internally, and between what scholarly economics has to say about policy, and what policy economics ends up getting implemented. It's actually quite stark.
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But yeah, economists have the distinct advantage of being able to proffer 'analysis' on a system they helped design, lol, and then use that analysis to justify and further implement that system. https://uberty.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/MacKenzie-An-Engine-Not-a-Camera.pdf … http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/36082/CrisisRevised.pdf … https://wtf.tw/ref/mackenzie.pdf …
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