Feb
Listening to this talk it borught economists to my mind.
I feel they (we) were perfectly presented when David talked about explanations that can be easily varied, because we are experts explaining one thing and the opposite within a very short period of time.
It was while I was studying Political Economics at the University of Santiago de Compsotela when Professor Olariaga talked to us about Procrustes myth applied to what economists actually do (“Procrustean solution” is the undesirable practice of tailoring data to fit results).
Economists, we’ve doing so fine changing our own theories and explanations about reality that many people say that the Economy is not science. But in the end, maybe the real problem is that economists do not behave as scientists whenever they appear serving political speeches (both for public administrations or big companies). This is a very clear case where explanation is not the goal.
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