Economy is not a science. Hand waving does not equal knowledge that can instruct good decisions on any level. I laughed my ass off in the 3 econ classes I took. Jumped through the hoops, but there’s not much there, there, as they say.
Economist here. This is pretty much the anti-intellectualism that everyone here is talking about and this is the opinion I’ve seen constantly on Lemmy.
Most people have no idea what it is that I do and think it’s something to do with making billionaires more money. It isn’t and it never has been and it hasn’t been for anyone that I’ve kept in contact with from any of my classes.
You don’t have to be involved in financial matters to be an economist either. We’re more involved in finding out root causes and impacts in certain fields.
An economist’s opinion
Ftfy
There it is though.
An actual “Economist” will have a Masters in Economics at the least or a PhD in Economics at the research level.
So I would and should indeed trust an economist on matters of economics more than anyone should trust, well, you on matters of economics.
You just proved the point of the post. Unless I missed that you are an economist and are poking fun at yourself…
Economy is not a science. Hand waving does not equal knowledge that can instruct good decisions on any level. I laughed my ass off in the 3 econ classes I took. Jumped through the hoops, but there’s not much there, there, as they say.
Economist here. This is pretty much the anti-intellectualism that everyone here is talking about and this is the opinion I’ve seen constantly on Lemmy.
Most people have no idea what it is that I do and think it’s something to do with making billionaires more money. It isn’t and it never has been and it hasn’t been for anyone that I’ve kept in contact with from any of my classes.
You don’t have to be involved in financial matters to be an economist either. We’re more involved in finding out root causes and impacts in certain fields.
To be fair while economists do a lot of good empirical testing across disciplines they are notorious for mis-interpreting other fields