/lit/ - Literature

>>4332523
Technically a proper economic study shouldn't be ideological unless your just speaking of basic philosophy regarding whether or not we can know things and how we can know it. It should just be a study of market interactions, what forms them, how they function with all other things being equal, and other qualitative understandings of human exchange. From there you could definitely infer proper political action from the data by whatever standard you wish, but the study its self is apolitical.

Now, are there economic schools that seem like they're a bit more built around justifying certain actions or seem like they take a long of things for granted? Yes. However, the study its self if done proper is apolitical. Unless your judging data by how well its ethical conclusions work (which is decent for checking to make sure your not doing something batshit, but is a backwards way of evaluating data), you want to treat economics as just being an attempt to understand the world and then build your beliefs off that.

Wouldn't be too quick on that though. Economics is a moderately heavy subject with a lot of disagreement on some very fundamental levels. Need to get a good grounding in it before you can really evaluate much.