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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world -2 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Anti-intellectualism on Lemmy, it must be a day ending in y.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 3 points 22 hours ago

Calling well-earned criticism of economics anti-intellectualism is using the composition/division fallacy.

Most people's lives have been affected for decades by Chicago School of Economics voodoo nonsense, that's where much modern criticism is aimed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_in_a_Time_of_Debt

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/jul/11/how-economics-became-a-religion

https://pluralistic.net/tag/chicago-school/

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

And Jesus fucking Christ, the number of people in here who speak like economics is a field united behind Austrian economics is fucking bizarre.