• Windex007@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yeah I might be making the mistake of thinking that economic policy is made by economic scientists.

    We don’t do that with climate, energy, education, or health… So I guess it’s not fair to make the assumption for economic matters either.

    I guess like many other areas of social policy (which… I assume we agree economic policy is) it that I’m very… I don’t know… “Aware”, maybe of the limitation of fields driven primarily by study as opposed to more hands on experimental methods.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, policy is not made by economists. Which is both good and bad! Ideally you don’t want somebody who only looks at their own corner of the world running things, because they’ll end up sacrificing everything else to make that corner look good.