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19 points
most of the field of economics looks a lot like a pseudoscience.
Well, when one of the founding assumptions is that humans make rational economic decisions, you are in for a bad time.
3 points
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I called this out when I was 19 and first took econ 101.
I was like, the foundational premise of this entire field is demonstrably wrong, wtf
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7 points
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What if you assume they have infinite time horizons or instantaneous and free transaction costs over infinite distances?
7 points
