/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>18679580
>The university economists can barely be said to have an ideology of their own
Economists on reddit literally founded the r/neoliberal subreddit and seeded it with economist memes. I wouldn't take that as a barometer for defining them all, but neoliberalism is certainly the beating political heart of economist teachers. Pragmatic evidence-based theory is their go-to identity. They not only believe in their models, they use them as economic scientists to defend their political suppositions. The moderators of r/Economics and r/Neoliberal are tautologically the same. 1:1
https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/
https://www.reddit.com/r/economics/

>The reason I say this is because misinterpreting this normal usage of the belief as being instead an ideological underpinning believed in "for itself" leads one to critique an opinion which isn't actually held. "Economists" don't care if gravity exists, they care if they can use the theory to roughly describe what happens when they drop a piece of fruit
This may describe so-called economist independents at best, and there are those who do their best to adopt the position, but as a rule the entire field leans into neoliberal centrism. They're also famously intolerant of communists.

>>18679657
>you might want to understand what it means before you use it though
I'm saying falsifying data to avoid the simple truth Fox News is NUMBER ONE on that list, is only done because you again, for no discernable purpose, seek to mask Republicans as an outlier instead of the mainstream that they are.