Are economists just obscurantist witch doctors?
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A toy rat for the fatcats to play with, Friedman peddled his mind to the highest bidder and glorified parasites and cheats, as long as they came from the better class of people.  He chanted mumbo-jumbo dreamed up in the sheltered ignorance of academentia.  Economics is a captive science; economists are liars for hire.  Nerdy weaklings, they desperately need to be patted on the head by the Big Boys of Big Business in order to make themselves whole.\n\nThe only market force is force itself.  All their fantasy of a Free Market means is that whoever controls a market should be free to do whatever he wants.  Their theories are one-sided and set up to reach a false conclusion by ignoring the other side.  But that side can balance the power by uniting against the parasites and cheats; otherwise, it is a single man against a millionaire.  Economists, like the Church-controlled scientists of the Middle Ages, have nothing to say to us.  Their forked tongues are owned by those born with silver spoons in their mouths.
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the kind of doctor that doesnt know much
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That's an old fundamental problem.  Mathematicians and physicists tend to disbelieve their own observations and replace their experience with empirical results and tautological proofs.
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Thats BS.\n If what you say is indeed true than they are very smart for contributing to their OWN economy. We could learn  alot from them\nContributing to the global economy has contributed 1000s of Americans out of jobs duh. What about our own economy?\n\nOh btw define what is expected? That is the problem you see. Too many countries expect .
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Hi,\nFresh ideas keep the world of economics from stagnating. No one likes to get stuck in a rut and when a new idea or method is proposed, the old ones must adapt to keep up with improvments or, get left behind.
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Isn't that economical majors?
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Of course. There are many types of alternative medicine that although not supported by the scientific community. Have their own community of standards that allows them to be effective. It's important to understand that modern medicine has the hype and unless you have the charisma to produce your own hype you will not be very successful in alternative medicine. When I say hype I don't mean lies, although allot of hype is lying. I'm talking about advertising, and reputation. If your goal is to make $$$ then you should study traditional medicine so traditional people will pay you. But if you are good at selling you might be able to do it anyways. As an aside I think ethnic medicines are difficult to pass as authentic when you don't belong to that ethnic group.
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Yes, economic exchange theory.  Otherwise known as "money".  Although, I guess even that has its detractors...
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Where did you get that thought. I have studied Economics and there is nothing that says it is beneficial to an economy if a few people hold greater wealth.
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I think some people have made money by interpreting selected bits to fit events as they occur.  Nostradamus is adequately cryptic to use for this purpose.  People who are too busy for fortune-tellers are usually more productive.
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Yes, there a conservative scientists as well.  Not surprising, there are also apolitical scientists that just want to focus on science.
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No. Some of the best writers/scientists/psychologists I have read, all began thier education with an economics qualification. Even though thier skills later developed into nothing to do with this subject, they all seem to have this background. So unless its making you seriously depressed or something, stick with it.
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Nah. While they were decent theories a hundred years ago, most of his ideas have been shown to be pretty much junk science. For example, dreams are now thought of more as random stuff in your brain, rather than reflecting the inner subconscious of your hidden desires.\n\nAnother thing I disagree with is his extreme sexualization of behavior. For example, Freud believed that from the beginning of human life, we are sexual creatures, and actually labeled our stages of development as oral/anal/phallic/latent. Wow. He was also rather derogatory toward women, but that kinda fits with the attitude of that age.\n\nYet another problem is Freud studied mental patients, and then expected that their patterns of behavior would be similar to the general public. He did very little actual experimentation.\n\nOn the flip side, he really was the first to suggest a subconscious that we're not fully aware of, a very important idea even now. And he did practially establish the field, so we have to give him some credit :)
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Yes, but, believe me, econ. is hard. I have a B.A.in econ., but I like complications. You need to be good at abstract thinking and especially adept at higher algebra and calculus. Unless you're a major, econ's not worth it. Trust me, even the experts don't understand a lot of what they're doing in economics.
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Like any human, some are some aren't. As a rule I find they're not very bright and have missed things like a 3 grand VAT overpayment that I later found myself.\n\nThink of them as plumbers. Some are good, some are rubbish, they all just want your money.
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Gate Way is right.\nPlus, pawang or witchdoctor or jinn is not that accurate and good in doing jobs at all.\nThey cannot foresight the future as they claim.\nReview surah Al-Jin for proofs.
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That's a very very good question in light of the fact that they have\nlittle if any real value to a persons health. AMA doctors today are\nonly expert at their financial portfolios all other requirements they\nmust complete are cover by what they call standards of care,which are dictated prescriptions of their real masters the\ndrug dealers.