Comment on Justin Fox on ‘Economists Contemplate Life on the Outs’
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The current state of economics is that of a cargo cult or fake science. The skirmishes with Mr. Trump cannot distract from the fact that economists are incompetent scientists. The real problem is NOT AT ALL that they are kept out of the new administration. For society, the real problem is how economists as fake scientists can be expelled as fast as possible from the scientific community.
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► Inequality: Market failure or theory failure?
► Failed economics: The losers’ long list of lame excuses
Egmont Kakarot-Handtke
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