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> a lot of economics as it’s used for political decisions is way oversimplified to the point of being useless or just plain wrong.

Absolutely. A point well made by James Kwak in his book Economism: Bad Economics and the Rise of Inequality, where he complains about this caricature of Economics 101 that is often used to justify laissez-faire policies.

https://economism.net




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