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Old 05-06-2013, 02:22 PM   #81
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I am always startled as to how little average people understand economics. It's a science, people.
It's as much a philosophy or religion as it is science. "Science" implies there is an theory of economics that can explain and *predict* economic phenomena, whereas all current economic theories are much better at postdiction than prediction.
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