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Blakely writes some seriously savage sentences:
“Perhaps the most comprehensive empirical evidence to date established that economic experts are unable to outperform amateurs in predicting a wide range of economic indicators, including GDP growth, unemployment, and inflation.”
— Mar 25, 2026 07:32AM
“Perhaps the most comprehensive empirical evidence to date established that economic experts are unable to outperform amateurs in predicting a wide range of economic indicators, including GDP growth, unemployment, and inflation.”
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“Economists’ mathematical rigor and scientific sophistication made them in high demand in public policy and the private sector, which in turn enabled them to leverage their own expertise to claim that science itself dictated they receive higher salaries than their other colleagues in the liberal arts.”
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As an instructor in theology at a local university, I simultaneously laugh and cry 😅
