If so then every opinion anyone has about economic phenomenon -- including yours -- is merely an unscientific speculation at best, or "an excuse to indulge personal inclinations and desires." -- including the opinions given in your article here.
If we take you at your literal word, you impeach your own testimony.
Economics can be a science if and only if that are invariants in human behavior, categories of action that do not change with time and place, or which the national psychology of the group involved. In other words, if economics is treated as you treat it here, as an unscientific speculation about the mass psychology of men in the marketplace, it is not economics: it is merely an ad Hominem, an attempt to read unsavory motives into the minds of one's opposition.
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Date: 2008-10-14 02:10 am (UTC)If so then every opinion anyone has about economic phenomenon -- including yours -- is merely an unscientific speculation at best, or "an excuse to indulge personal inclinations and desires." -- including the opinions given in your article here.
If we take you at your literal word, you impeach your own testimony.
Economics can be a science if and only if that are invariants in human behavior, categories of action that do not change with time and place, or which the national psychology of the group involved. In other words, if economics is treated as you treat it here, as an unscientific speculation about the mass psychology of men in the marketplace, it is not economics: it is merely an ad Hominem, an attempt to read unsavory motives into the minds of one's opposition.