11-05-2013, 06:52 PM
(11-05-2013, 08:03 AM)eppie Wrote: Well...economics tries to predict things, but always with a goal and an ideology in mind. And usually this goal is the goal of western rich people.
Please never compare economics with physics (or meteorology for that matter).
To say the the goal of economics is to serve the wealthy is like saying the goal of science is to prove that no gods exist. The goal of economics is to create models of whatever economy you may be interested in describing. (Some economists use their models to study EVEonline.) How it is used may be influenced by ideology, but it is foolish to confuse a tool with the one who uses it. Even if many people use economics in a way that assumes the conclusion they seek, I do not believe the discipline is constructed around that. To me, that is like saying statistics is a corrupt discipline because some people distort studies and use handpicked samples.
-Lem