Benjamin Cain
May 3, 2023

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You mean that scientistic economics isn't able to address value-laden philosophical questions that are obviously relevant to economic behaviour. But economics wasn't always scientistic. Classical economists were philosophical. The flight to the mathematical trappings of scientism is a dodge, a passing of the buck to keep economic rationalizations of capitalistic narrow-mindedness and of corporate sociopathy intact.

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Benjamin Cain
Benjamin Cain

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