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They are doing economics as an ideology, by hiding under the cloak of science.

Oooooooh the irony!

The natural scientist must be a modern materialist, a conscious adherent of the materialism represented by Marx, i.e., he must be a dialectical materialist.

- V.I. Lenin.

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Which just goes to show that ideology is a circle; stray too far into the wastelands of the left and you'll end up in the wastelands of the right, and vice versa.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Wed Apr 29th, 2009 at 01:32:17 PM EST
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Starvid:
Which just goes to show that ideology is a circle
Or, in a "political compass" model, a sphere with a single point at infinityidiocy.

Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Apr 29th, 2009 at 01:34:46 PM EST
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A sphere?

Have they added a third dimension to it, beyond right<->left and anarchistic<->authoritarian?

(Or whatever they used to call it)

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Wed Apr 29th, 2009 at 01:36:45 PM EST
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The surface of one.

Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Apr 29th, 2009 at 02:32:35 PM EST
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