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But, as Deaton describes in his unsparing new book, Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality, he soon realized he had run headlong into the libertarian monetarists of the Chicago School of Economics, and they were driving US policy.

There is this very strong libertarian belief that inequality is not a proper area of study for economists,” Deaton said. “Even if you were to worry about inequality, it would be best if you just kept quiet and lived with it.”

https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2023/oct/07/angus-deaton-interview-book-economics-in-america
 
But, as Deaton describes in his unsparing new book, Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality, he soon realized he had run headlong into the libertarian monetarists of the Chicago School of Economics, and they were driving US policy.

There is this very strong libertarian belief that inequality is not a proper area of study for economists,” Deaton said. “Even if you were to worry about inequality, it would be best if you just kept quiet and lived with it.”

https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2023/oct/07/angus-deaton-interview-book-economics-in-america

Meanwhile NYC will spend $12 Billion on illegal immigrants
 
"The Nobel prize winner and author of new book Economics in America argues economists must get back to serving society"

Shouldn't economists focus on rigorous, dispassionate, mathematical and statistical study of economies and understanding them rather than social and economic justice politics?
 

Of course. For you it makes sense in some bizarro way that economists should ignore facts, science, and mathematics, in favor of political correctness, pushing woke policies, and insanities of the radical Left... In short, you call for them to ignore the science.
 
Of course. For you it makes sense in some bizarro way that economists should ignore facts, science, and mathematics, in favor of political correctness, pushing woke policies, and insanities of the radical Left... In short, you call for them to ignore the science.

You're lost in your world of right wing ideology.
 
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