“Teaching students is my part-time job – I’d rather work with my GSIs on groundbreaking research than explain basic supply and demand over and over again to these 19-year-old imbeciles,” asserted McCarthy. “Education, especially in economics, should be gatekept from those who don’t have the capacity to understand everything on the first try. Call that perfect competition.”
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“The whole idea of astrology is stupid,” Madoff mused. “It tries to predict the actions and preferences of infinitely complex people using information that has little to no evidence of accurately reflecting the world we live in! Thanks, but no thanks – I’ll stick to the real science: classical economics.”
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David Card Wins Nobel Prize in Economics for Proving $5 Is Too Much for a Slice of Pizza
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