- In response to the question of whether to be advocates or engineers, it is pretty clear that Economics as a field has enough engineers. Most Economists I know are working for large corporations, and almost all of them are engineers within the company, not advocates (there are a few extremely annoying exceptions). They have to forecast demand and prices for their products, and this work does not allow ideology to get in the way. They build structural econometric models, and they let the chips fall where they may. Sometimes the models have implications which could be interpreted in a political way (yes, even microeconomic models of demand can have political implications), but that's not the objective of the analysis. I was at a business economics conference (NABE) a couple of years ago, where someone did a presentation on "Austrian Economics 101." The reaction of the audience was extremely negative, as they saw it either as making no useful predictions or coming from too simplistic assumptions. Business economists are not in a position to advocate in this way. So the job of advocacy falls to academic economists. After all, if good economists don't advocate, the only advocates will be bad economists.
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joi, 1 mai 2014
DOS VEROS DEUSES QUE SÃO POUCO ECONÓMICOS AOS FALSOS DEUSES ECONÓMICOS - A ECONOMIC APPROACH JUST COMIC LIKE THE TUTSI ROACH....
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― Milton Rokeach The Three Christs of Ypsilanti: A Psychological StudY
― Morris F. Cohen, An Introduction to Logic and Scientific Method
It's easy to overlook others. TRUE
― Alexandre Dumas-fils
(Letter to Alexander Chekhov, May 10, 1886)”
European philosophers and historians often pick up on this kind of thing, sometimes to an absurd extent, but Madonna was onto something with her lyrics about being a material girl in a material world. You'd be surprised what you can learn about society and gender relationships when considering the design of a kitchen stove.
Economists, like just about everyone else, are stuck being advocates. If the facts speak for themselves, then the issue is what facts are collected and how are they measured. (For example, why is the denominator of efficiency usually a monetary quantity rather than a labor hour quantity?)