• @PugJesusOP
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    185 days ago

    God, the Austrian Cult of Economics is bizarre. My favorite part is where they explicitly reject evidence, conceptually (‘praxeology’).

    • @[email protected]
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      135 days ago

      Love that one. “Evidence disagrees with our theories? Don’t worry, we have a theory for that! It’s actually the evidence that’s wrong.”

      Generally, you shouldn’t brag that your theories are unfalsifiable.

      • @InternetCitizen2
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        105 days ago

        Austrian economics is to economics what flat earth is to physics. Really anything useful that austrians contributed has made its way into modern econ101; everything else got left behind, so it is curious why someone wants to keep the school (its not but its a good rhetorical question)

        I do love to ask them what government regulations forced xyz company to do this or that unethical thing that they have a monetary incentive todo. Its a whole missing the forest for the trees kind of discussion.