• Pons_Aelius
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    191 year ago

    most of the field of economics looks a lot like a pseudoscience.

    Well, when one of the founding assumptions is that humans make rational economic decisions, you are in for a bad time.

    • WalrusDragonOnABike
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      1 year ago

      What if you assume they have infinite time horizons or instantaneous and free transaction costs over infinite distances?

    • @Cryophilia
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      1 year ago

      I called this out when I was 19 and first took econ 101.

      I was like, the foundational premise of this entire field is demonstrably wrong, wtf

      • Pons_Aelius
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        31 year ago

        Yep. It is like starting geometry by saying. “Lets assume π = 3.”