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Tue Jul 21 12:48:55 +0000 2020

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Paul Krugman @paulkrugman

But this kind of ignorant arrogance/intellectual imperialism isn't unique to economists. Try talking economics with physicists! 5/ — PolitiTweet.org

Posted July 21, 2020

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There are, to be sure, economists who suffer from severe unearned arrogance, believing that because they can crank through complicated models they must be smarter than other people, including other economists. 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

Posted July 21, 2020

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What's special about this situation isn't that people who know something about one field have delusions of omnicompetence. It's the political edge, which associates actually bad economics with conservative goals 6/ — PolitiTweet.org

Posted July 21, 2020

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