alt Hacker NewsYour comment is funny because it’s completely opposite - economics has generally great track record and fraudulent results typically do not survive for long. Citation cartels and paper mills exist in all disciplines.
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greenchair • yesterday at 8:22 PM
the economists have a terrible record which is why public opinion of them is low. I'd guess equal weight to meterologists forecasting.
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cess11 • yesterday at 8:22 PM
Does it, really? There haven't been any problematic issues since economists and their lore became a dominant influence over politics that could be attributed to this influence?
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Behavioral economics is challenging this - see the fake data published in a 2012 Ariely paper and identified in 2021.