• Tedrow@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Basically Freakonomics is kind of bullshit, make you feel smart, fluff.

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        That’s because Economics is actually boring. Disputes are over how to measure inflation or unemployment exactly, not the exciting things in Freakonomics.

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          Yeah, except the exciting things in Freakonomics are pretty much just correlations. There’s no research done to see if there is any cause.

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        I mean, yeah. It was written specifically to be accessible and fluffy. Like none of the non-academic share of the population is qualified or capable of digesting and actual treatment of economics.