Economics has many substantive areas of knowledge where there is agreement, but also contains areas of controversy. That's inescapable.
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Economics is a strange science. Our subject deals with some of the most important as well as mundane issues that impinge on the human condition.
Economics is mostly how humans rationalize who gets what and why. It's how we instantiate our preferences about status, privileges, and power.
The way I think of it, economics and ecology occupy two intellectual silos, isolated from each other. Even when they do take each other into consideration, it's not uncommon for ecologists to spout absolute nonsense about economics, and vice versa.
Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.
Economics is a subject that does not greatly respect one's wishes.
While I am interested both in economics and in philosophy, the union of my interests in the two fields far exceeds their intersection.
Disagreements are one of the fundamental positive aspects of science.
I think economics - and this is what I've tried to impart - has a tremendous amount of human interest in it.
Economics is everywhere, and understanding economics can help you make better decisions and lead a happier life.
Economics pretends to be a science. Its practitioners fill blackboards with equations and clog computers with data. But it is really a faith, or more accurately a set of overlapping and squabbling faiths, each with its own doctrines.
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